Should we always mention the campus?

[sanantone]

A campus is usually a location of a college or university (the global campus schools are causing confusion). It's typically not a separate institution; it's an additional location for one institution. Within university systems, there are multiple independent institutions. You can't leave the location or any other designator off the end of the name because it is a part of the name. It's not optional because it's not a campus. When you leave off the city, which is an official part of the name not a campus location, people will think you're talking about the flagship.

Examples:

Texas A&M = Texas A&M, College Station (flagship of the Texas A&M university system)

Texas A&M, Commerce /= Texas A&M or Texas A&M, College Station - Texas A&M, Commerce is an independent, separately accredited institution. Therefore, you have to include "Commerce" in the name.

Texas A&M, Commerce - Dallas Campus = Texas A&M, Commerce

Texas A&M, College Station - Dallas Regional Campus = Texas A&M, College Station

In the last two examples, you don't have to include "Dallas" because that's just a campus, not a separate institution. I hope I didn't confuse anyone. LOL.

University of Maryland Global Campus is an independent university. Washington State University Global Campus is just the online division for Washington State University, so you can leave off "Global Campus."

In my opinion, it's fine if an independent university wants to call themselves "Global," but they should leave "Campus" out of their name. It makes prospective students believe that they're attending an online division of the flagship.

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To cause further confusion, your city can have its own university and a campus from another university within the same system.

University of Texas at Austin = University of Texas - It's located in Austin, TX.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - Austin Campus is not University of Texas at Austin. It's University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, which has its main campus in Houston. Austin is an extension campus.