cow college

1. A college or university whose education focuses on agriculture. I always loved working on our farm growing up, so even though I could have gone to business or law school, I always knew I'd be heading to a cow college. Don't pressure Matthew into going to a cow college when you know he would do well in a setting like Wall Street In this small, rural town, we have one cow college. You gonna have to drive across the state for other options.

2. Any small, rural college or university, especially one that is relatively unknown or not well regarded. I'm just getting my first two years out of the way at this cow college before applying to a proper university. I wish I could have gone to an Ivy League school, but because I had to pay my way through college, a cow college was all I could afford. A: "But she's such a bright girl. Why is she going to that cow college?" B: "I think she likes the small class sizes."

cow college

An agricultural college; any small, relatively unknown rural college. For example, He's never published a paper, but he might do all right in some cow college. This term uses cow in the somewhat pejorative sense of "provincial." [c. 1910]