University

A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education. University is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning corporation (since the first medieval European universities were simply groups of scholars).

See also

• Corporate universities
• List of colleges and universities
• List of oldest universities in continuous operation
• List of medieval universities
• Muslim educational institutions
• School and university in literature
• University ranking
• Wikiversity