To rename to a University...
 

What programs do people think a school should have in order to rename itself from blah-blah College to blah-blah University?

Is one Master's program enough? five Master's? One Doctoral Program? or is a certain percentage of their students being in a Graduate Program? Having a Med School or a Law School?

I wish there were national standards. Due to some shady renamings I've seen lately, there really should be.

This!

I thought the restriction is it has to have multiple colleges; a college of liberal arts, business administration, engineering, etc. I didn't think post grad had anything to do with it.

^^^ Typically, that is the case. The individual colleges/schools are subsidiary units of the university. The state university where I am a professor has 25,000 students, with colleges that offer undergraduate and graduate degrees. My daughter's alma mater, Washington and Lee University, only has 1,800 undergraduates, but they have a College and a business school and a law school.

I don't know if this is regulated by the Higher Learning Commission, like Carnegie research designations (R1 institutions are big research-focused universities).

As for the various online, for-profit "institutions" -- who knows what dictates their actions, besides the desire to turn a profit. Maybe they think "university" sounds better.

Agree 100%. Here in Maryland, with the exception of the University of Maryland at College Park and UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County), higher education is nothing to write home about. Over the course of ten years or so, most of these subpar colleges have been reborn as "universities". Doesn't change the fact, though, that they're pretty much continuations of high school. Grades 13 through 16, if you will.

ETA: Johns Hopkins is not a public school so I didn't address it in my rant :)

How are these institutions granted the title of university, is it not regulated by the government?

Seriously. Even Trump was able to call his "school" a university.

What about "Monsters University" -- warranted, or not?

It is not.

As I understand it, "NORMAL" schools to get a University status must have a certain amount of at least some MA/MB offerings.
Thento be working toward PHD Degrees?

Might be wrong as many times am, LOL!

Here is the difference between the two? .. sort of.

http://www.bestvalueschools.com/faq/...-a-university/

I think you missed a pretty good public school in Maryland in your list. Alumni include President Jimmy Carter and Senator John McCain. Tuition is pretty good as well....

And quite a few of my cousinsm and I believe, Mr. KillarneyRose!

A Mr. KillarneyRose is a Naval Academy graduate? I'm missing something. You have my curiosity.