What is the difference between institution and university?
institution | university | Hypernyms |
An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
The building which houses such an organisation.
A custom or practice of a society or community, marriage for example.
(informal) A person long established with a certain place or position.
The act of instituting.
(obsolete) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook or system of elements or rules.
Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
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University is a hypernym of institution.
As nouns the difference between institution and university
is that institution is an established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc while university is institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.institution
English
Noun
(wikipedia institution) (en noun)- There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, being an institution of physic. — Evelyn.
Derived terms
* academic institution * educational institution * research institutionExternal links
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English
(wikipedia university)Noun
(universities)The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Usage notes
* In the United States, institutions calling themselves universities are generally relatively large (compared to colleges), and offer postgraduate degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. In other countries, this distinction is not made and any degree-granting institution is called a university. * In the United States, students will sometimes say that they go to "the university" or to "a university", but they are far more likely to say they are going "to college". In the UK, students go to "university", without the article. In Canada, students go "to university" (also without the article) if they are attending a school that grants bachelor's or postgraduate degrees.Synonyms
* uni * academy * institute * college * varsityHypernyms
* school * institutionDerived terms
* university of technology * technical university * technological university * varsitySee also
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