university

Yoong Liat wrote:

Grammar Geek wrote:  Yoong Liat wrote: We're talking about University of Michigan or Michigan University. Which is the correct version? University of Michigan 'University of Oxford', is more commonly referred to as 'Oxford University' by native speakers, I presume. Can we refer to 'University of Michigan' as 'Michigan University'?

I am an American football fan, so I am quite familiar with college football teams and their names. 

University of South California   –  We call it “USC”

Stanford - Everyone knows it’s a top-notch privately operated  University

Harvard – needs no introduction, we all know it’s a University.

UCLA – University of Calif. at Los Angles.

San Francisco State [University] is not the same as UCSF which is University of California at San Francisco.

So once a university name is established, it’s better to leave it as it’s known.

Becasue UC Region is a Unviversity system which has many locations. For example:

UCLA, UCSF, UCSD, UCDavids etc..so the proper prep is "at" when addressing it as a proper name.

"In" may be possible in other contexts. However, "she is studing at UCLA" is the correct form.

Hi Jim,

But was your tee-shirt made in Hong-Kong? Anyway, tee-shirts are for tourists.

Clive