private university

A private university is a higher education institution that is independently funded and operated, primarily through tuition, donations, and endowments rather than direct government support.

Aliases (19)

• higher education institution ×304
• private research university ×65
• private liberal arts college ×57
• Catholic university ×44
• Jesuit university ×22
• private college ×21
• Christian university ×15
• Ivy League university ×10
• private liberal arts university ×3
• Private research university ×2
• private Christian university ×2
• private higher education institution ×2
• Jesuit law school ×1
• Private university ×1
• college of music ×1
• independent university ×1
• private law school ×1
• private university law school ×1
• university in Kenya ×1

Instances (showing first 500 of 683)

• University of Wisconsin–Green Bay ("higher education institution")
• Maine College of Art & Design ("private college")
• Cumbria College of Art and Design ("higher education institution")
• Baylor University
• Boston University ("private research university")
• Northwestern University ("private research university")
• University of Leeds ("higher education institution")
• Keijo Imperial University ("higher education institution")
• École des Beaux-Arts ("higher education institution")
• BC
• Boston College
• University of Portland
• Pontifical Catholic University of Chile ("Catholic university")
• Pennsylvania ("private research university")
• University of Notre Dame ("private research university")
• DePaul University
• Fife College (Dunfermline campus) ("higher education institution")
• Northeastern University ("private research university")
• Shenandoah University
• Lewis & Clark College ("private liberal arts college")
• Loyola University Chicago ("private research university")
• Brandeis University ("private research university")
• Reed College ("private liberal arts college")
• Williams College ("private liberal arts college")
• Penn ("private research university")
• Amherst College ("private liberal arts college")
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Massachusetts College of Art and Design ("higher education institution")
• Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ("private research university")
• Truckee Meadows Community College ("higher education institution")
• Smith College ("private college")
• Mount Holyoke College ("private liberal arts college")
• Rockhurst University
• Western Nevada College ("higher education institution")
• MMU ("higher education institution")
• Manchester College of Commerce ("higher education institution")
• Wellesley College ("private liberal arts college")
• Hope College ("private liberal arts college")
• Wheaton College, Illinois ("private liberal arts college")
• Normal School of Science ("higher education institution")
• Howard University ("private research university")
• Weizmann Institute of Science ("higher education institution")
• Elmhurst University
• Columbia University ("Private research university")
• Kansai University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ("private research university")
• Longy School of Music of Bard College ("higher education institution")
• Santa Clara University
• New York University ("Private research university")
• Benedictine University
• Bhavan’s College, Porbandar ("higher education institution")
• University of Havana ("higher education institution")
• University of San Francisco School of Law ("Jesuit law school")
• North Central College ("private liberal arts college")
• City University of New York ("higher education institution")
• Kindai University
• Gakushuin University
• NOVA University Lisbon ("higher education institution")
• Calvin University
• Manchester School of Art ("higher education institution")
• Pomona College ("private liberal arts college")
• Waseda University ("private research university")
• Cornerstone University
• NOVA ("higher education institution")
• ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon ("higher education institution")
• Marquette University
• Northwestern College (Iowa) ("higher education institution")
• Manchester School of Architecture ("higher education institution")
• Aquinas College ("private college")
• Lesley University
• ESIEE Paris ("higher education institution")
• Yale University ("private research university")
• Tufts College ("private research university")
• Berklee College of Music ("higher education institution")
• Dordt University
• University of Rochester ("private research university")
• Drexel University ("private research university")
• Wake Forest University ("private research university")
• University of the West of Scotland ("higher education institution")
• University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
• Kobe City University of Foreign Studies ("higher education institution")
• Kobe Gakuin University
• Glasgow Caledonian University ("higher education institution")
• University of Detroit Mercy
• Kettering University
• Edinburgh Napier University ("higher education institution")
• Elon University
• Davidson College ("private liberal arts college")
• Abertay University ("higher education institution")
• Queen Margaret University ("higher education institution")
• Occidental College ("private liberal arts college")
• Pennsylvania Military College ("higher education institution")
• Catawba College ("private liberal arts college")
• Carnegie Mellon University (through merger of Carnegie Technical Schools) ("private research university")
• Aoyama Gakuin University
• High Point University
• Spelman College ("private liberal arts college")
• Kokugakuin University
• Union College ("private liberal arts college")
• Industrial Academy in Moscow ("higher education institution")
• Boston College (in the Boston metropolitan area) ("private research university")
• Rollins College ("private liberal arts college")
• DePauw Tigers men's basketball ("private liberal arts college")
• Escola Nacional de Belas Artes ("higher education institution")
• Princeton University ("private research university")
• Clark State College ("higher education institution")
• Sapienza University of Rome ("higher education institution")
• Bowdoin College ("private liberal arts college")
• Nazareth Academic Institute ("higher education institution")
• Brown University ("private research university")
• American University of Beirut ("private research university")
• École du Louvre ("higher education institution")
• Bryn Mawr College ("private liberal arts college")
• United States Military Academy ("higher education institution")
• Université Saint-Joseph
• Sabhal Mòr Ostaig ("higher education institution")
• University of La Serena ("higher education institution")
• Lebanese American University
• Cornell University ("private research university")
• Dartmouth College ("private research university")
• Clark Atlanta University
• Middlebury College ("private liberal arts college")
• Stanford University ("private research university")
• Royal Academy of Music ("higher education institution")
• Oberlin College ("private liberal arts college")
• University of Central Missouri ("higher education institution")
• Royal College of Music ("higher education institution")
• Dong-A University
• Busan National University of Education ("higher education institution")
• Vermont College of Fine Arts ("private college")
• Grayson College ("higher education institution")
• Roane State Community College Oak Ridge campus ("higher education institution")
• Université Paris Nanterre ("higher education institution")
• Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ("higher education institution")
• Emory University ("private research university")
• Austrian Polytechnic in Graz ("higher education institution")
• LaGrange College ("private liberal arts college")
• Catholic University of Leuven ("Catholic university")
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (historical origin) ("higher education institution")
• Anglia Ruskin University ("higher education institution")
• Uppsala University ("higher education institution")
• Bogazici University ("higher education institution")
• University of Pisa ("higher education institution")
• Manchester Met ("higher education institution")
• Columbia Institution for the Deaf (Gallaudet College) ("higher education institution")
• London School of Economics ("higher education institution")
• Wesleyan University ("private liberal arts university")
• Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick ("higher education institution")
• RMIT University ("higher education institution")
• University of Alaska Southeast ("higher education institution")
• University of Padua ("higher education institution")
• University of Swaziland ("higher education institution")
• University of Tampa
• Northern Michigan University ("higher education institution")
• Juilliard School
• New Era University
• Mills College at Northeastern University ("private liberal arts college")
• University of Southern California ("private research university")
• Lasell University
• Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences ("private college")
• CMU ("private research university")
• William James College ("higher education institution")
• Azim Premji University
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Marymount University
• Kyiv National Economic University ("higher education institution")
• Northeastern University (via nearby E branch transfer at Park Street) ("private research university")
• Five Towns College ("private college")
• COMSATS University Islamabad ("higher education institution")
• Pensacola State College ("higher education institution")
• Colorado College ("private liberal arts college")
• American International College ("private college")
• Saint Louis University ("private research university")
• Tshwane University of Technology ("higher education institution")
• Daemen University
• University of Derby ("higher education institution")
• Iona University
• Tulane University ("private research university")
• Wittenberg University ("private liberal arts college")
• Loyola University New Orleans
• University of Nottingham ("higher education institution")
• Eastern Oregon University ("higher education institution")
• ERM ("higher education institution")
• University of Saint Joseph (nearby, West Hartford)
• Seattle University
• American University in Cairo ("private research university")
• Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University ("higher education institution")
• Lutsk National Technical University ("higher education institution")
• Elmira Female College ("higher education institution")
• University of Warwick ("higher education institution")
• Albany Law School
• Libyan International Medical University
• Athenaeum Illustre ("higher education institution")
• Seattle Pacific University
• University of Maine at Fort Kent ("higher education institution")
• University of the Philippines Los Baños campus ("higher education institution")
• Fordham University
• Fresno Pacific University
• Strathmore University
• Pacific Lutheran University
• École des Ponts et Chaussées ("higher education institution")
• United States International University Africa
• Akaki Tsereteli State University ("higher education institution")
• VGIK ("higher education institution")
• Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering ("higher education institution")
• Bard College ("private liberal arts college")
• University of St. Thomas
• Volgograd State Technical University ("higher education institution")
• California Baptist University ("private Christian university")
• Volgograd State Medical University ("higher education institution")
• Frunze Military Academy ("higher education institution")
• Bethany College, Bethany, Virginia ("private liberal arts college")
• Morehouse College ("private liberal arts college")
• Police Academy (Egypt) ("higher education institution")
• Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy ("higher education institution")
• Case Western Reserve University ("private research university")
• Saint Petersburg Conservatory (through artists and productions) ("higher education institution")
• Southern Methodist University ("private research university")
• Ithaca College ("private liberal arts college")
• Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion ("higher education institution")
• Glasgow School of Art ("higher education institution")
• Viljandi Culture Academy ("higher education institution")
• New England Conservatory of Music
• Leo Baeck College ("higher education institution")
• Westminster Choir College (historically) ("college of music")
• Syracuse University ("private research university")
• Bethany College ("private college")
• Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris ("higher education institution")
• University of Santo Tomas ("Catholic university")
• UM ("private research university")
• Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
• Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ("higher education institution")
• Royal College of Music in Stockholm ("higher education institution")
• Baker College of Muskegon ("private college")
• Conservatoire de Paris ("higher education institution")
• Central Saint Martins ("higher education institution")
• Nishinomiya
• École supérieure d’art et design de Valence ("higher education institution")
• Swansea University ("higher education institution")
• Simmons University
• Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
• University of Tulsa ("private research university")
• University of South Wales ("higher education institution")
• University of Baltimore ("higher education institution")
• Wentworth Institute of Technology
• Transylvania University ("private liberal arts college")
• Collège de France ("higher education institution")
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute ("private research university")
• Ohio Dominican University
• Universidad de Guayaquil ("higher education institution")
• Universidad de las Américas Puebla (in nearby Cholula)
• Moore College of Art and Design ("private college")
• Eastern New Mexico University ("higher education institution")
• St. John’s College, Annapolis ("private college")
• Hornsey College of Art ("higher education institution")
• Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) ("Catholic university")
• University of Barcelona ("higher education institution")
• College of Southern Nevada ("higher education institution")
• University of the Orange Free State ("higher education institution")
• University of Fort Hare ("higher education institution")
• Mercer University ("private research university")
• Jacksonville University
• Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law ("private law school")
• Trinity College ("private liberal arts college")
• Wesleyan College ("private liberal arts college")
• Vanderbilt University (attended briefly) ("private research university")
• École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures ("higher education institution")
• Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
• Grinnell College ("private liberal arts college")
• Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Metro Campus ("private higher education institution")
• University College Dublin ("higher education institution")
• University of Kharkiv ("higher education institution")
• Shaw University
• Gomal University ("higher education institution")
• University of Pennsylvania ("private research university")
• Hosei University
• Dublin City University ("higher education institution")
• HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht ("higher education institution")
• Uniandes ("private research university")
• Selma University
• Solusi University
• Centenary College of Louisiana ("private liberal arts college")
• Johns Hopkins University ("private research university")
• Setsunan University
• University of Central Lancashire ("higher education institution")
• Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
• Tallahassee Community College ("higher education institution")
• Butler University
• Ateneo de Manila University
• Community College of Denver ("higher education institution")
• University of Indianapolis
• Illinois Institute of Technology ("private research university")
• Capital University
• Far Eastern University – Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
• Yonsei University ("private research university")
• University of Richmond
• Korea University ("private research university")
• University College of Wales, Aberystwyth ("higher education institution")
• Syracuse University College of Law ("private university law school")
• Virginia Union University
• Presentation College ("private college")
• Bentley University
• University of Salford ("higher education institution")
• Imperial Moscow Technical School ("higher education institution")
• Framingham State University ("higher education institution")
• National Research University Higher School of Economics ("higher education institution")
• Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
• Washington College ("private college")
• Keio University ("private research university")
• Regis College
• Franklin University
• Patrick Henry College ("higher education institution")
• Panthéon-Sorbonne University ("higher education institution")
• Pontifical Gregorian University ("Catholic university")
• Kansai Gaidai University
• Moscow Conservatory ("higher education institution")
• Riga Polytechnic Institute ("higher education institution")
• Belhaven University
• Doshisha University
• Rider University
• University of Algiers ("higher education institution")
• College of New Jersey ("private research university")
• Ritsumeikan University
• California Institute of the Arts
• Ege University ("higher education institution")
• Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos ("higher education institution")
• Queens College, City University of New York ("higher education institution")
• Dokuz Eylul University ("higher education institution")
• Bath Spa University ("higher education institution")
• University of San Diego
• Creighton University
• American College of Switzerland ("private college")
• Sunway University (Malaysia)
• Africa University
• Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts ("higher education institution")
• Soegijapranata Catholic University
• Crimean Federal University ("higher education institution")
• State University of Semarang ("higher education institution")
• Pace University
• Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University ("higher education institution")
• University of North Texas at Dallas ("higher education institution")
• Villanova University
• Vassar College ("private liberal arts college")
• Taurida Academy ("higher education institution")
• Saint Joseph's University
• Kryvyi Rih National University ("higher education institution")
• University of Denver ("private research university")
• City of Glasgow College ("higher education institution")
• Metropolitan State University of Denver ("higher education institution")
• Marsh ("private research university")
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ("higher education institution")
• Manhattanville College ("private liberal arts college")
• Mogadishu University ("higher education institution")
• New York City College of Technology ("higher education institution")
• Northern State University ("higher education institution")
• University of Catania ("higher education institution")
• College of Saint Mary ("higher education institution")
• Stockport College ("higher education institution")
• Bond University
• University of Puget Sound ("private liberal arts college")
• Beni Suef University ("higher education institution")
• Washington and Lee University ("private liberal arts university")
• Saint Vincent College ("private liberal arts college")
• Nahda University in Beni Suef
• Evergreen State College ("higher education institution")
• Santa Barbara City College ("higher education institution")
• Kursk Institute of Land Management ("higher education institution")
• Central College ("private liberal arts college")
• Centre College ("private liberal arts college")
• University of Jena ("higher education institution")
• Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Hood College ("private liberal arts college")
• Protestant Theological Faculty ("higher education institution")
• Tuskegee University
• Georgetown University ("private research university")