private university
C5
concept
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.
All labels observed (36)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| higher education institution | 2,454 |
| private university canonical | 777 |
| private liberal arts college | 219 |
| Catholic university | 162 |
| private college | 147 |
| private research university | 126 |
| Christian university | 80 |
| Jesuit university | 45 |
| private Christian university | 29 |
| Private university | 22 |
| private higher education institution | 16 |
| Ivy League university | 12 |
| private liberal arts university | 9 |
| 私立大学 | 6 |
| Private research university | 3 |
| college of music | 3 |
| nonprofit university | 3 |
| private law school | 3 |
| private university law school | 3 |
| private university system | 3 |
| private women’s university | 3 |
| private business school | 2 |
| university in Kenya | 2 |
| Jesuit law school | 1 |
| Non-profit university | 1 |
| University in Nigeria | 1 |
| defunct private university | 1 |
| independent university | 1 |
| non-public university | 1 |
| non-state university in Italy | 1 |
| private institution | 1 |
| private university center | 1 |
| private university college | 1 |
| private university school | 1 |
| university in Venezuela | 1 |
| 私立大学学部 | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: private university
Generated description
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.
Instances (3,539)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Glasgow Caledonian University | higher education institution |
| Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics | higher education institution |
|
Margaret Bremond Rice
surface form:
Rice University
|
private research university |
| St. Bonaventure University | — |
| Sirte University | higher education institution |
| Immaculata University | — |
| Thomas College | private college |
| Maryville College | private liberal arts college |
| Le Mans University | higher education institution |
| University of Redlands | — |
| University of Detroit Mercy | — |
| Yangon University of Economics | higher education institution |
| Al Fateh University | higher education institution |
| Kettering University | — |
| WCC | higher education institution |
|
Middletown
surface form:
Wesleyan University
|
private liberal arts university |
| Tartu Health Care College | higher education institution |
| Tartu Art College | higher education institution |
| Edinburgh Napier University | higher education institution |
| Pyeongtaek University | higher education institution |
| Blackburn College | private college |
| Belarusian State University | higher education institution |
| Flagler College | private liberal arts college |
| Fitchburg State University | higher education institution |
| HUC-JIR | higher education institution |
| Nkumba University | — |
| Claremont Graduate University | private research university |
| Gloucestershire College | higher education institution |
| Elon University | — |
|
Eliot Hall at Washington University in St. Louis
surface form:
Washington University in St. Louis
|
private research university |
| Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts | higher education institution |
|
Eddie Cameron was a longtime Duke basketball coach and athletic director
surface form:
Duke University
|
private research university |
| Kalamazoo College | private liberal arts college |
| Hamideye Ticaret Mekteb-i Âlisi | higher education institution |
| Lebanon Valley College | private liberal arts college |
| California College of Arts and Crafts | private college |
| Davidson College | private liberal arts college |
| CSUB | higher education institution |
| Abertay University | higher education institution |
| Aurora University | — |
| Chattanooga State Community College | higher education institution |
| King University | — |
| Queen Margaret University | higher education institution |
| St. Anthony's College, Shillong | higher education institution |
| Occidental College | private liberal arts college |
| Mills College | private college |
| Falmouth University | higher education institution |
| Ursinus College | private liberal arts college |
| Caldwell University | — |
| Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University | higher education institution |