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 |
|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Military College | higher education institution |
| Trinity College (Durham, North Carolina) | private college |
| Catawba College | private liberal arts college |
| Central New Mexico Community College | higher education institution |
| University of Debrecen | higher education institution |
| Debrecen Reformed Theological University | higher education institution |
| Raichur University | higher education institution |
| Wagner College | private liberal arts college |
| University of Wisconsin–Parkside | higher education institution |
|
Carthage College (in Kenosha city)
surface form:
Carthage College
|
private liberal arts college |
| Chowan College | higher education institution |
| Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya | higher education institution |
| Arcadia University | — |
|
Carnegie Mellon University (through merger of Carnegie Technical Schools)
surface form:
Carnegie Mellon University
|
private research university |
| Western Connecticut State University | higher education institution |
| Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University | higher education institution |
| Livingstone College | private college |
| University of Sunderland | higher education institution |
| Tusculum University | — |
|
David Laing
surface form:
Queen’s College, London
|
higher education institution |
| Aoyama Gakuin University | — |
|
St Mary’s University Twickenham
surface form:
St Mary’s University, Twickenham
|
Catholic university |
| Richmond American University London | — |
| Rose Bruford College | higher education institution |
| High Point University | — |
| Université Savoie Mont Blanc | higher education institution |
| Spelman College | private liberal arts college |
|
UST
surface form:
University of Santo Tomas
|
Catholic university |
| UNM Gallup Campus | higher education institution |
| St. Ambrose University | — |
| Palmer College of Chiropractic | private college |
| Asbury University | — |
| Walters State Community College | higher education institution |
| Friends University | — |
| Newman University | — |
| Lee University | — |
| Kokugakuin University | — |
| John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin | Catholic university |
| Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts | higher education institution |
| Moulay Ismail University | higher education institution |
| Union College | private liberal arts college |
| Skidmore College | private liberal arts college |
| UDLAP | — |
| Tanta University | higher education institution |
| Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies | higher education institution |
| Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts | higher education institution |
| Industrial Academy in Moscow | higher education institution |
|
Boston College (in the Boston metropolitan area)
surface form:
Boston College
|
private research university |
|
Kitasato
surface form:
Kitasato University
|
— |
| New York Institute of Technology | private research university |