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"A Rose by Any Other Name": Which Colleges Became Universities
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2002
- pp. 207-223
- 10.1353/rhe.2002.0005
- Article
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This study examines the institutional characteristics of the more than 100 institutions that changed their name from "college" to "university" during the 1990s. It explores three competing hypotheses to explain these name changes. The findings show that the institutions involved were predominantly less selective institutions that enrolled greater numbers of graduate students than their peers.