Facts about University

A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education.

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctorate) in a variety of subjects.

Books from university libraries, written by anti-Nazi or Jewish authors, were burned in places (in Berlin for example) in 1933, and the curricula were subsequently modified.

Public university systems are ruled over by government-run higher education boards.

The predecessor of the modern university found its roots in Paris, especially under the guidance of Peter Abelard, who wrote Sic et Non ("Yes and No"), which collected texts for university study.

Nanjing University was founded in 258 in China.

University of Strasbourg was transferred to Clermont-Ferrand and Reichsuniversitдt StraЯburg existed 1941–1944.

The leading university was the Moscow State University.

A popular textbook for university study was called the Sentences (Quattuor libri sententiarum) of Peter Lombard; theology students and masters were required to write extensive commentaries on this text as part of their curriculum.

At the Bologna university the students ran everything—a fact that often put teachers under great pressure and disadvantage.

Classes were taught wherever space was available such as churches and homes, a university was not a physical space but a collection of individuals banded together as a universitas (the corporation).

Another Indian university whose ruins were only recently excavated was Ratnagiri University in Orissa.

The Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University provided higher education as well as a KGB training ground for young communists from developing countries.

Al-Azhar University, founded in Cairo, Egypt in the tenth century, offered a variety of post-graduate degrees, and is often regarded as the first full-fledged university.

The end of the medieval period marked the beginning of the transformation of universities that would eventually result in the modern research university.

University studies took six years for a Bachelor's degree and up to 12 additional years for a master's degree and doctorate.

Students entered the University at 14 to 15 years of age.

Nalanda University, founded in Bihar, India around the fifth century B.C.E.

The French university model involved strict discipline and control over every aspect of the university.

University of Pozna? was closed by the Nazi Occupation in 1939, its faculty replaced with German substitutes.

The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of teachers and scholars."

The word university means "institution of higher learning" or "body of persons constituting a university."

The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes the University of Al Karaouine in Fez, Morocco as the oldest university in the world with its founding in 859.

The development of the medieval university coincided with the widespread reintroduction of Aristotle from Byzantine and Arab scholars and the decline in popularity of Platonism and Neoplatonism in favor of Aristotelian thought.

By the eighteenth century, universities published their own research journals, and by the nineteenth century, the German and the French university models had arisen.

Byzantine university refers to higher education during the era of the Byzantine empire.

A different case is the university of Constantinople, which was founded in the ninth century as a secular institute of higher learning, to support the state administration.