University vs. Universitary

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.

Universitaryadjective

Relating to a university