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A '''University''' is an institution of post-secondary education, usually meaning one that has many [[college]]s under its auspices.  There is, however, no rule that this must be the case for a [[school]] to use the word university in its name.  True universities will often not only have many distinct [[undergraduate]] colleges, but usually several prominent [[graduate school]]s.  Graduate schools offer advanced degrees in many academic fields, and sometimes also offer professional degrees in fields like [[Medicine]] and [[Law]].

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.  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. 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.  

The most prominent universities are the older colleges that have grown over the centuries since their founding, and the land grant State universities which were founded to make higher education affordable for the common man (and, eventually, woman).

 

The most prominent universities are the older colleges that have grown over the centuries since their founding, and (in the United States)the land grant State universities which were founded to make higher education affordable for the common man (and, eventually, woman).

[[Category:Colleges]]

[[Category:Colleges]]