I have to say, when I read the name of the university, I thought, “wasn’t that the name of the school that John Galt, Francisco, and Ragnar attended?”
I thought the same.
Yep. Although theirs was Patric Henry University, rather than College.
There is an article somewhere at one of the Rand / objectivist websites discussing if Ayn based PHU on PHC. Embarrassed to admit that I can’t remember the conclusion of the article for certain, but I think the connection was tenuous, at best.