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A '''University''' is an institution of post-secondary education, usually meaning one that has many [[college]]s under its auspices.  In the [[United States]], there is, however, no rule that this must be the case for a [[school]] to use the word university in its name (e.g. the three main service academies).

A '''university''' is an institution of post-secondary education, usually meaning one that has many [[college]]s under its auspices.  In the [[United States]], there is, however, no rule that this must be the case for a [[school]] to use the word university in its name (e.g. the three main service academies).

Other countries may have legal or academic requirements for a school to do this. A case in point is the [[United Kingdom]], which used to have [[degree]]-issuing institutions known as [[polytechnics]] teaching subjects of a more vocational nature, which were upgraded to university status through the [[Further and Higher Education Act]] in 1992. Hong Kong did the same to its polytechnics in 1994 and 1995 and to the then Shue Yan College, now [[Hong Kong Shue Yan University]], in 2006. In these cases, the change in status allowed them to validate their own degrees rather than have them validated by an outside body such as the [[Council for National Academic Awards]] in the UK.  

Other countries may have legal or academic requirements for a school to do this. A case in point is the [[United Kingdom]], which used to have [[degree]]-issuing institutions known as [[polytechnics]] teaching subjects of a more vocational nature, which were upgraded to university status through the [[Further and Higher Education Act]] in 1992. Hong Kong did the same to its polytechnics in 1994 and 1995 and to the then Shue Yan College, now [[Hong Kong Shue Yan University]], in 2006. In these cases, the change in status allowed them to validate their own degrees rather than have them validated by an outside body such as the [[Council for National Academic Awards]] in the UK.