I can't speak for other universities, it could be that they are mapped wrong. I usually only pay attention to edits in my area. If you want to indicate that an off-campus office is run by SJSU, it's best to use the "operator" tag on that office. The "amenity=university" tag is only to indicate the area where classes are. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Duniversity OSM has a rule that one feature should only be represented by one OSM object, so the campus should be a single "amenity=university" way covering the area where classes take place. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element The land that SJSU owns is also not of interest to OSM: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Parcel The way I see it, if someone were to ask me where SJSU is, I'd point to the block between San Fernando, 10th, San Salvador, and 4th. A search engine therefore should be able to find a single object with that name and that area.