Types of university or college

thumb|Alma Mater (New York sculpture)|Alma Mater by [[Daniel Chester French, Columbia University. The alma mater, meaning "nourishing mother" in Latin, is one of the most enduring symbols of the university. The phrase is associated with the University of Bologna, Italy, founded in 1088.]]

upright=1.35|thumb| Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent [[colleges of the University of Cambridge in England ]] thumb| Williams College in Williamstown, [[Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States]] thumb|Seinäjoki College in [[Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018]] A college (Latin: collegium) may be a tertiary educational institution (sometimes awarding degrees), part of a collegiate university, an institution offering vocational education, a further education institution, or a secondary school.

education via communication technology with little or no face-to-face teaching

university predominantly funded by public means

thumb|right|250px|St Stephen's House, Oxford thumb|right|250px|Saint-Sulpice Seminary (France)|Saint-Sulpice Seminary, in [[Issy-les-Moulineaux, France]]

higher education institution not operated by a government

higher education institution operated by or for the military

higher-level learning institution

university-level institution granting degrees in business administration

university committed to research as a central part of its mission

institution specializing in music education

educational institution to train teachers

corporation organized during the High Middle Ages

college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences

type of educational institution

university created or managed by a government

university established or approved by the Roman Catholic Church

institution of higher education and sometimes research, which provides tertiary and sometimes quaternary education and grants professional academic degrees

institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890

institution specializing in legal education

college emphasizing religious instruction

university in which functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges

category of university in India

institution that provides higher education programs through electronic media

school with minimal entry requirements

student residence and academic community

thumb|Building of Fachhochschule Köln (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)

higher education institution that compared to a university is more limited in issuing degrees and conducting research

group of public universities supported by an individual state in the United States

type of educational institution

system of higher education institutions

institution devoted to scholarship in the field of education and for training teachers, usually an academic subunit of a university

type of post-graduate academic degree program

institutions in the Byzantine Empire

school for nurses

type of university licensed by the Roman Catholic Church to grant ecclesiastical degrees

''''''' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to universities and colleges in English. The term Universität (plural: Universitäten) is reserved for institutions with the right to confer doctorates. In contrast, Hochschule encompasses Universitäten as well as institutions that are not authorized to confer doctorates.

independent institution in Sweden, Norway, Finland or Denmark that provides tertiary education

university that exercises independent control over its day-to-day operations and curriculum

higher-educaton institution funded by the governments of many countries