university
an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines
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Summary
university is a type of educational institution[1]. university draws 14,726 Wikipedia views per month (type of educational institution category, ranking #9 of 57).[2]
Key Facts
- Field of work: higher education[3]
- Main regulatory text: Higher Education Act[4]
- Follows: baccalaureate[5]
- Subclass of: higher education institution[6], academic institution[7], geolocatable entity[8], organization[9]
- Commons category: Higher education institutions[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Universities[11]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:University[12]
- OpenStreetMap tag: amenity=university[13], education=university[14]
- Described by source: The Catholic Encyclopedia[15], Otto's encyclopedia[16], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], The New Student's Reference Work[19], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[20], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox university[23], Template:Universities in Gujarat[24]
- Has characteristic: Q108401094[25]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/University[26], http://swrc.ontoware.org/ontology#University[27], http://pcp-on-web.de/ontology#University[28], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=University[29]
- Different from: université d'été[30], college[31], professional and vocational university[32]
- Properties for this type: P6375[33], P1449[34], P3876[35], P571[36], P17[37], P856[38], P131[39], P576[40], P5822[41], P10263[42]
- History of topic: university history[43]
- Uses: university building[44]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for university include RuPaul's Drag U[45], a television series[46].
Why It Matters
university has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] university is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]
Entities named for university include RuPaul's Drag U[45], a television series[46].