# ITT Technical Institute

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-technical-institute/178846>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 31, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-technical-institute/178846 "2003-05-31T23:25:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pezwookiee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@pezwookiee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezwookiee)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-technical-institute/178846/1 "2003-05-31T23:25:43Z")

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I don’t know if any of you Dopers have this commercial in your neck of the woods, but over here on television we always have ads for “ITT Technical Institute,” a technology-related trade school.

For some reason, I got this itch to know exactly what ITT stands for. It’s probably becasue I’m kind of hoping it’ll be a redundant abbreviation like “PIN Number” or “ATM Machine.” Ideally, it will stand for "\<b\>I\</b\>nstitute for \<b\>T\</b\>echnological \<b\>T\</b\>echnology Technical Institute, though probably not.

This urge was even strong enough to get me to go to their website, www.itt-tech.edu to see if there was any mention of the complete name of the school. None whatsoever.

Does anyone have any idea what the full name of the school is?

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**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-technical-institute/178846/2 "2003-05-31T23:45:37Z")

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Um, I suppose you didn’t like the answers given [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=187460)?

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-technical-institute/178846/3 "2003-06-01T00:41:55Z")

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Since this has been asked in another thread, I’ll close this one. If you don’t get the answer to the question, you can bump a thread back to the top of the forum list once, but starting a new thread doesn’t help matters.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ