University/Colleges

A university (from 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.

The word university is derived from the Latin phrase universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means “community of teachers and scholars”.
• being a high degree-awarding institute.
• using the word universitas (which was coined at its foundation).
• having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.

University, institution of higher education, usually comprising a college of liberal arts and sciences and graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. A university differs from a college in that it is usually larger, has a broader curriculum, and offers graduate and professional degrees (master’s and doctorates), professional degrees, in addition to undergraduate degrees (such as the bachelor’s degree). Although universities did not arise in the West until the Middle Ages in Europe, they existed in some parts of Asia and Africa in ancient times.