Academy vs. University

Academynoun

The garden where Plato taught.

Academynoun

Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.

Academynoun

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

Academynoun

A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.

Academynoun

A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.

Academynoun

(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

Academynoun

Academia.

Academynoun

A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.

Academynoun

A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

Academynoun

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Academynoun

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

Academynoun

A place of training; a school.

Academynoun

A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

Academynoun

A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.

Academynoun

a secondary school (usually private)

Academynoun

an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

Academynoun

a school for special training

Academynoun

a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

Academynoun

a place of study or training in a special field

Academynoun

a place of study

Academynoun

(in England) an inner-city school which is funded by the government and sometimes also by a private individual or organization but is not controlled by the local authority.

Academynoun

a secondary school, in the US typically a private one

Academynoun

the teaching school founded by Plato.

Academynoun

a society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that aims to promote and maintain standards in its particular field

Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.

Universitynoun

Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

Universitynoun

The universe; the whole.

Universitynoun

An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.

Universitynoun

An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty

Universitynoun

the body of faculty and students at a university

Universitynoun

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

Universitynoun

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

University

A university (Latin: universitas, 'a whole') is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs.