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A college or university may change it's name. Here are some of the changes. __TOC__
Armstrong Atlantic.......................................................................................Armstrong St. Auburn......................................................................................................Alabama Poly Augusta St. .......................................................................................................Augusta B Bemidji St. ............................................................................................Bemidji Teachers Benedictine (Ill.) .........................................................................................Ill. Benedictine Bradley.......................................................................................................Bradley Tech UC Davis .............................................................................................California Aggies C Cal St. East Bay .....................................................................................Cal St. Hayward Cal St. Fullerton .................................................Orange County State College; Orange St. Cal St. L.A. ........................................................................................Cal St. Los Angeles Cal St. Northridge .......................................................................San Fernando Valley St. Case Reserve .........................................................................Case Institute of Technology Central Okla. ......................................................................................Central St. (Okla.) Charleston So. ............................................................................................Baptist (S.C.) Charleston (W.V.)......................................................................................Morris Harvey Charlotte..................................................................................................UNC Charlotte Chattanooga ................................................................................................Tenn.-Chatt. Cleveland St. ..........................................................................................................Fenn Colorado St. ...........................................................................................Colorado A&M Colorado St.-Pueblo ..................................................................................Southern Colo. Columbus St. ..................................................................................................Columbus Concordia (Calif.)..............................................................................Christ College-Irvine Concordia (Ill.) ..................................................................................Concordia Teachers Crown........................................................................................................St. Paul Bible D DeSales...........................................................................................................Allentown Detroit.....................................................................................Detroit Mercy; Detroit Tech Dist. of Columbia....................................................................D.C. Teachers; Federal City Dominican ...........................................................................................................Rosary Drexel ..........................................................................................................Drexel Tech Duke...........................................................................................................Trinity (N.C.) E Eastern Mich. ......................................................................................Michigan Normal Emporia St. ........................................................................................Kansas St. Normal FDU-Florham...............................................................................................FDU-Madison Fresno St. ..................................................................................................Fresno Pacific Ga. Southern .......................................................................................Georgia Teachers Ill.-Chicago...........................................................................................Ill.-Chicago Circle Illinois St. ......................................................................Illinois St. Normal; Illinois Normal Indiana (Pa.) ...........................................................................................Indiana St. (Pa.) Indianapolis.............................................................................................Indiana Central Iowa............................................................................................State University of Iowa Iowa St. ................................................................................................................Ames James Madison .................................................................................................Madison Johnson C. Smith........................................................................................Johnson Smith Kansas St. ...............................................................................................Kansas Aggies Kent St. ..................................................................................................................Kent La Sierra .......................................................................................................Loma Linda Current school name: Changed from: Lamar ...........................................................................................................Lamar Tech Liberty ............................................................................Lynchburg Baptist; Liberty Baptist La.-Lafayette...........................................................................................Southwestern La. La.-Monroe .................................................................................................Northeast La. Loyola Marymount..................................................................................Loyola U. of L.A. Lynn..............................................................................................College of Boca Raton Lyon.....................................................................................................Arkansas College Maritime (N.Y.) .........................................................................................N.Y. Maritime Martin Luther.....................................................................................Northwestern (Wis.) Marycrest Int’l........................................................................................Teikyo Marycrest Md.-East. Shore ...........................................................................................Maryland St. Massachusetts.........................................Massachusetts St.; Massachusetts Agriculture Col. Mass. Liberal Arts...................................................................................North Adams St. Mass.-Dartmouth.................................................................................Southeastern Mass. Mass.-Lowell........................................................................Lowell; Lowell St.; Lowell Tech McDaniel....................................................................................................Western Md. Memphis .....................................................................................................Memphis St. Minn. St. Mankato............................................................Mankato Teachers; Mankato St. Minn. St. Moorhead ....................................................Moorhead St.; Moorhead Teachers Missouri St. .........................................................................................Southwest Mo. St. Mont. St.-Billings ....................................................................................Eastern Montana Montana St.-Northern ..........................................................................Northern Montana Murray St. ............................................................................................Murray Teachers Neb.-Kearney................................................................................................Kearney St. Neb.-Omaha ......................................................................................................Omaha New England U. ....................................................................................St. Francis (Me.) New Jersey City .........................................................................................Jersey City St. N.J. Inst. of Tech. .............................................................................Newark Engineering New Mexico St. ................................................................................New Mexico A&M New Orleans ....................................................................................Louisiana St. (N.O.) North Ala. ...................................................................................................Florence St. N.C. Central ....................................................................................North Caro. College UNC Pembroke...........................................................................................Pembroke St. North Central (Ill.).......................................................................................North Central North Central Texas...................................................................................Cooke County North Texas ...............................................................................................North Tex. St. Northeastern St. ............................................................................Northeastern Okla. St. Northern Ariz. ......................................................Arizona St.-Flagstaff; Flagstaff Teachers Northern Colo. ...............................................................................Colorado St. College Oklahoma St. ........................................................................................Oklahoma A&M Old Dominion...........................................................................William & Mary (Norfolk) Pepperdine........................................................................................George Pepperdine Phila. Sciences ..............................................................................Philadelphia Pharmacy Philadelphia U. ..................................................................................Philadelphia Textile Polytechnic (N.Y.)................................................................New York Poly; Brooklyn Poly Post .......................................................................................................Teikyo Post; Post Rhodes ............................................................................................Southwestern (Tenn.) Rice .............................................................................................................Rice Institute Richard Stockton............................................................................................Stockton St. Rochester Institute of Technology ....................................................................................Mechanics Institute Rowan.......................................................................................................Glassboro St. Salem Int'l ........................................................................................Salem-Teikyo; Salem Southern Ind. ..................................................................................Indiana St.-Evansville Southern Me. ..................................................Maine Portland-Gorham; Gorham St. (Me.) Southern N.H........................................................................................New Hamp. Col. Southern U. ...............................................................................................Southern B.R. Southwest Minn. St. ....................................................................................Southwest St. Stevens Institute ............................................................................................Stevens Tech Taylor-Ft. Wayne....................................................................................Summit Christian Tex. A&M-Commerce..................................................................................East Texas St. Tex. A&M-Kingsville .........................................................................................Texas A&I Tex.-Pan American .....................................................................................Pan American Texas St. .............................................................................................Southwest Tex. St. Towson..........................................................................................................Towson St. Truman...............................................................................Northeast Mo. St.; Truman St. Tulsa.........................................................................................................Henry Kendall Washburn ...............................................................................................Lincoln College Washington-St. Louis ............................................................................Washington (Mo.) Washington St. ..............................................................Washington Agricultural College West Ala. .......................................................................................................Livingston West Tex. A&M........................................................................................West Texas St. Western Mich. ............................................................................Western State Teachers Western N.M. ...............................................................................New Mexico Western Western Ore. ................................................Oregon Tech; Oregon College of Education Western St. ..................................................................Colo. Western; Colorado Normal Westmar ............................................................Western Union College; Teikyo Westmar Wichita St. .....................................................................................................Fairmount Widener .............................................................................Pennsylvania Military College Wm. Paterson ...............................................................................................Paterson St. Wis.-Eau Claire .................................................................................Eau Claire Teachers Wis.-La Crosse ...................................................................................La Crosse Teachers Wis.-River Falls...................................................................................River Falls Teachers Current school name: Changed from: Wis.-Superior ........................................................Superior Normal; Superior St. Teachers Xavier..............................................................................................................St. Xavier SCHOOLS also known as Current school name: Also known as: Air Force ....................................................................................U.S. Air Force Academy Apprentice School....................................................................................Newport News Army...........................................................................U.S. Military Academy; West Point Baruch ...............................................................................................Bernard M. Baruch Case Reserve.................................................................................Case Western Reserve CCNY......................................................................................City College of New York City Tech .............................................................................NYCCT; New York City Tech Coast Guard .........................................................................U.S. Coast Guard Academy GC&SU ......................................................................Georgia College & State University Hawthorne .....................................................................................Nathaniel Hawthorne IPFW ......................................................................................Indiana/Purdue-Ft. Wayne IUPUI....................................................................................Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis Lehman ..............................................................................................Herbert H. Lehman Lipscomb ................................................................................................David Lipscomb Long Island...................................................................................................LIU-Brooklyn LSU.............................................................................................................Louisiana St. Merchant Marine..........................................King’s Point; U.S. Merchant Marine Academy MIT..........................................................................Massachusetts Institute of Technology Navy..............................................................................................U.S. Naval Academy TCNJ .............................................................The College of New Jersey (was Trenton St.) NYIT......................................................New York Institute of Technology; New York Tech Rochester Inst. ...........................................................................................................RIT Sewanee .......................................................................................University of the South TCU ........................................................................................................Texas Christian UAB......................................................................................................Ala.-Birmingham UCF ..................................................................................Central Fla. (was Florida Tech) UCLA ........................................................................University of California, Los Angeles UMBC...................................................................................................Md.-Balt. County UMKC...................................................................................................Mo.-Kansas City UNI...........................................................................Northern Iowa (was Iowa Teachers) UNLV..............................................................Nevada-Las Vegas (was Nevada Southern) UTEP ...........................................................................Texas-El Paso (was Texas Western) VMI..............................................................................................................Va. Military WPI..................................................................................................Worcester Poly Inst. SCHOOL MERGERS Current school name: Two Schools Merged & Year: Case Reserve.......................................................Case Tech & Western Reserve; 1971-72 Mass.-Lowell .................................................................Lowell St. & Lowell Tech; 1975-76 |
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