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arrow-up11.21Karrow-down1imagejust temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it richlemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.todayBanned from community to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square115linkfedilink
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up40·edit-23 months agoLots of American universities are named after the dudes who paid for them initially. I’m not saying I’d be proud to go to Bezos U (go fighting bald eagles!) but if it were free then you could hold your nose.
minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·3 months agoThere isn’t a university named after a rich dude that’s free. Most are very expensive to maintain the brand value of the family name.
minus-squareDarkaga@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·3 months agoHarvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, and Penn are all free if your family makes less than $200k/yr. A bunch more are free at $150k and $100k cutoffs.
minus-squarevortic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoWhich of those is named after a rich dude? Penn, is kind of but only because Pennsylvania is named after a person. I don’t think any of the rest are.
minus-squareDarkaga@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoJohn Harvard, Prince William III of Orange, Elihu Yale…
minus-squarecurbstickle@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 months agoThose are all private.
Lots of American universities are named after the dudes who paid for them initially. I’m not saying I’d be proud to go to Bezos U (go fighting bald eagles!) but if it were free then you could hold your nose.
There isn’t a university named after a rich dude that’s free. Most are very expensive to maintain the brand value of the family name.
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, and Penn are all free if your family makes less than $200k/yr. A bunch more are free at $150k and $100k cutoffs.
Which of those is named after a rich dude? Penn, is kind of but only because Pennsylvania is named after a person. I don’t think any of the rest are.
John Harvard, Prince William III of Orange, Elihu Yale…
Well, I’m a dumbass. Thanks!
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Those are all private.