university

1. The body of faculty and students at a university (synset 108303084)
   is a type of: body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
   subtypes:

   • 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
   member holonym: grad school, graduate school - a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree
   is a part of: academe, academia - the academic world
2. Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching (synset 104518297)
   associated with: red-brick, redbrick - of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century
   is a type of: establishment - a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
   subtypes:

   • 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
   specific instances:

   • brown, brown university - a university in Rhode Island
   • cambridge, cambridge university - a university in England
   • carnegie mellon university - an engineering university in Pittsburgh
   • columbia, columbia university - a university in New York City
   • cooper union, 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, harvard university - a university in Massachusetts
   • johns hopkins - a university in Baltimore
   • massachusetts institute of technology, mit - an engineering university in Cambridge
   • ohio state university - a university in Columbus, Ohio
   • oxford, oxford university - a university in England
   • paris university, sorbonne, university of paris - a university in Paris; intellectual center of France
   • princeton, princeton university - a university in New Jersey
   • stanford, 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
   • penn, pennsylvania, university of pennsylvania - a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
   • university of pittsburgh - a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
   • sussex university, 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, yale university - a university in Connecticut
3. A large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees (synset 108303490)
   is a type of: educational institution - an institution dedicated to education
   subtypes:

   • 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
   member holonym: college - an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

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