駅えき弁べん大だい学がく

noun

minor local college; small-time university

A mildly derogatory term for a low-prestige local university, likening it to a station bento—ubiquitous but unremarkable. Coined in the post-war era when many new universities were established.

• 彼かれは駅えき弁べん大だい学がくを出でて、地じ元もとの中ちゅう小しょう企き業ぎょうに就しゅう職しょくした。

  He graduated from a minor local college and got a job at a local small or medium-sized company.

• 駅えき弁べん大だい学がくと揶や揄ゆされるような学がっ校こうでも、優ゆう秀しゅうな学がく生せいはいる。

  Even at a university derided as a small-time school, there are excellent students.