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suitcase university

suitcase university
 n.— «We’ve got a reputation of being a suitcase university because students go home in the weekend.» —“Colleges work to speed graduation” by Judy Putnam in Lansing Grand Rapids Press (Mich.) May 14, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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