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A university is a big school where you go to get a degree — maybe even a master’s or PhD. If you’re going to a university, you’re probably on a big campus that also offers housing for students and professors.

Just like the word universe (“the whole world”), university comes from the Latin word universus, meaning "whole, entire." So think of a university as being sort of a world of its own — an institute of higher education where you live and study. A university generally offers advanced degrees and research opportunities in many fields. Sometimes college and university are used to mean the same thing, but colleges are typically smaller and more limited in scope than universities.

DEFINITIONS OF: university

n a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees

Types:: multiversity
a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers; Open University
a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school

Type of:: educational institution
an institution dedicated to education

n establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

Examples:: show 29 examples...; hide 29 examples...; Brown University
a university in Rhode Island; Cambridge University
a university in England; Carnegie Mellon University
an engineering university in Pittsburgh; Columbia University
a university in New York City; Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences; Cornell University
a university in Ithaca, New York; Duke University
a university in Durham, North Carolina; Harvard University
a university in Massachusetts; Johns Hopkins
a university in Baltimore; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
an engineering university in Cambridge; Ohio State University
a university in Columbus, Ohio; Oxford University
a university in England; University of Paris
a university in Paris; intellectual center of France; Princeton University
a university in New Jersey; Stanford University
a university in California; University of California at Berkeley
a university in Berkeley, California; University of Chicago
a university in Chicago, Illinois; University of Michigan
a university in Ann Arbor, Michigan; University of Nebraska
a university in Lincoln, Nebraska; University of North Carolina
a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; University of Pennsylvania
a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh
a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; University of Sussex
a red-brick university in Brighton, England; University of Texas
a university in Austin, Texas; University of Vermont
a university in Burlington, Vermont; University of Washington
a university in Seattle, Washington; University of West Virginia
a university in Morgantown, West Virginia; University of Wisconsin
a university in Madison, Wisconsin; Yale University
a university in Connecticut

Types:: city university
an urban university in a large city; Oxbridge
general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University); redbrick university
(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University

Type of:: establishment
a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence

n the body of faculty and students at a university

Types:: gown
the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located; varsity
a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University

Type of:: body
a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

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