Can you name the most common words in the names of US colleges and universities?

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Source: National Center for Education Statistics, US Department of Education
Based on the 7,316 institutions of higher learning listed by the National Center for Education Statistics. The next fifty-two (57 to 31 appearances) are bonus answers.
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Words in University/College Names Quiz

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Created Aug 21, 2011 in Just For Fun
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	inhumandecency:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 17:26 GMT		3 points
	How could I have forgotten saints? Or named all the states, but forgotten "state"? This was fun!

	SunCrane:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 17:27 GMT		0 points
	34 answers, 23 bonuses...

	gg213606:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 17:28 GMT		20 points
	These all seem so obvious after the fact...

	njb042:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 17:34 GMT		53 points
	I'm such a snob, it didn't even occur to me that people go to beauty/cosmetology school.

	ScottLA:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 17:35 GMT		86 points
	Somehow, my degree from the International State Technical Beauty Academy of Hair Design Art - Northern West Virginia Campus at Empire Valley (an ITT Training School) didn't help at all. :(

	midlifecrisis:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 17:38 GMT		1 point
	Everest?? Do we live in Nepal? My daughter went to cosmetolgy school so I got cosmetology but not beauty or hair.

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	strags11:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:01 GMT		49 points
	I don't mean to be a snob either, but it's really depressing that there are more U.S. schools containing the word "Beauty" than there are "Technology", "Arts", "Sciences", "Engineering", "Nursing" and "Teaching"...combined.

	save_ferris15:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:03 GMT		6 points
	Wait, Everest? Are there a lot of climbing schools?

	ClamBuckets:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:08 GMT		22 points
	I like how north, south, and west are all clumped together but east is nowhere to be found.

Number	Word
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103
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99
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	Commodore:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:12 GMT		17 points
	Sporcle Cum Laude.

	Havok3595:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:14 GMT		8 points
	@strags11: The thing is that "beauty" is a relatively universal term, whereas "arts" is competing with "art" and "sciences" with "science", plus, it's assumed that any general college has some form of art and science, beauty, not so much.

	Reywas92:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:31 GMT		6 points
	I really don't think that beauty colleges and for-profit schools should count, especially those not accredited.

	cocky:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:54 GMT		1 point
	@Clambuckets....Eastern is a bonus.

	tjconn728:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:58 GMT		17 points
	NJB, I don't think it's that it didn't occur to you that people go to cosmetology school, but rather that it is considered an institute of higher learning.

	volkstraum:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 19:08 GMT		40 points
	"Beauty" places very well, "barber" comes in as a respectable bonus, however "clown" does not appear to be an in-demand college anymore.

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	kmzh:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 19:21 GMT		15 points
	@ninjadom: How many of the 7316 schools in the source list use "centre"?

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	cuendillar:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 19:32 GMT		26 points
	I'm surprised Washington didn't rank as a full answer. With both the capital, a state and the first president having that name, you'd think more universities were named after it/him.

	newenglander:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 19:32 GMT		15 points
	@max-Power-I think the presence of phoenix is due to the for-profit school, University of Phoenix, which has branches all over the country.

	ianmez:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 20:03 GMT		26 points
	It's a bit disturbing that the word "Inc." makes the top twenty (or even makes the list at all, for that matter).

	Max_Power:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 20:27 GMT		4 points
	Thanks newenglander, never heard of that before. Makes sense.

	kagomeshuko:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 20:32 GMT		1 point
	I didn't think my state of residence would've been in the words in college names!

	SilverShamrock:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 20:39 GMT		-3 points
	Anybody know where "de" comes from? I was thinking devries, maybe, but I don't think that's the case at all.

	carbon_rod:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 21:02 GMT		11 points
	Everest comes from a chain of technology colleges called, appropriately, Everest College. I'm more disturbed that Massage beat out Sciences.

	ricestillfumbled:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 21:59 GMT		5 points
	this is the first college quiz where going through every college football team in your head isnt the best strategy

	ricestillfumbled:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 22:01 GMT		2 points
	im having trouble understanding why st. is on here...are they being double counted with the saints and the states that are already on this quiz??