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Nicknames for Colleges or Students at Particular Schools

If you go to these schools, you might be called some unusual names. Don't worry, that's normal.

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• Babsonites: Babson College (Babson Park, MA)
• Bardie: Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY)
• Batesies: Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
• Bennies: Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
• Mawrters: Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
• Cal Poly/SLO: California Polytechnic State University — San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA)
• Carls: Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
• Clarkies: Clark University (Worcester, MA)
• 'Gate: Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
• Conn: Connecticut College (New London, CT)
• Drewids: Drew University (Madison, NJ)
• Dukies: Duke University (Durham, NC)
• Earlhamites: Earlham College (Richmond, IN)
• Emeroids: Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
• Fam-You: Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (Tallahassee, FL)
• Fummers: Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)
• Gusties: Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN)
• Hampsders: Hampden–Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney, VA)
• The Wick: Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY)
• Mudders: Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
• The Ford: Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
• The Berg: Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH)
• known simply as "K": Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI)
• Foresters: Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, IL)
• LC: Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR)
• The Tute: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• The W: Mississippi University for Women (Columbus, MS)
• The House: Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA)
• The Berg: Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA)
• Obie/Oberliners: Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Oxy: Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
• Pitzies: Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
• Reedies: Reed College (Portland, OR)
• Rizdee: Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
• St. Mike's: Saint Michael's College (Colchester, VT)
• Scrippsies: Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
• Sewanee: Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)
• Skiddies: Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)
• Smithies: Smith College (Northampton, MA)
• Johnnies: St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)
• Johnnies: St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM)
• Johnnies: St. John's University (Collegeville, MN)
• Larries: St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
• Woodsies: St. Mary–of–the–Woods College (St.Mary-of-the-Woods, IN)
• Ole: St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)
• Swatties: Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• Greeners: The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
• Transy: Transylvania University (Lexington, KY)
• Coasties: United States Coast Guard Academy (New London, CT)
• West Point: United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)
• Annapolis: United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD)
• Cal: University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• Mizzou: University of Missouri — Columbia (Columbia, MO)
• Carolina: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
• Pitt: University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Carolina: University of South Carolina — Columbia (Columbia, SC)
• U-Dub: University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA)
• Valpo: Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN)
• Vandy: Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
• Nova: Villanova University (Villanova, PA)
• Wallies: Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN)
• Wah-sue: Washington State University (Pullman, WA)
• Wheaties: Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)
• Wheaties: Wheaton College (Norton, MA)
• Whitties: Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)
• Ephs (shortened first name of the college founder): Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
• Witt: Wittenberg University (Springfield, OH)
• Whoopies: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)
• Yalies/Elis (shortened first name of the college founder): Yale University (New Haven, CT)