美國有的大學,有的是以地名,州名,市名命名的。有的是以人名命名的。可惜絕大多數這些名人 我都沒聽說過,懂的專家能否普及一下,比如
- Harvard University: John Harvard
- Yale University: Elihu Yale
- Brown University: Nicholas Brown
- Stanford University: Leland Stanford
- Johns Hopkins University: Johns Hopkins
- Vanderbilt University: Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Rockefeller University: John D. Rockefeller
- Duke University: Washington Duke
- Rice University: William Marsh Rice
- Emory University: John Emory
- Cornell University: Ezra Cornell
- Pepperdine University: George Pepperdine
- Calvin University: John Calvin
- Fisk University: Erastus Fisk
- Drew University: Daniel Drew
- Fisk University:Erastus Fisk
- Carnegie Mellon University: Andrew Carnegie + Andrew Mellon
- Williams College: Ephraim Williams
- Oberlin College: John Frederick Oberlin
- Harvey Mudd College: Harvey S. Mudd
- Reed College: Cyrus Ingerson Reed
- Wheaton College: Warren L. Wheaton
- Whitman College: Marcus Whitman
- Claremont McKenna College: James Millard McKenna
- Knox College: Henry Knox
- 應該還有好多。。。那些和建校沒有關係的名人就不列了,比如 Columbia,Washington之類的