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 |
|---|---|
| CNSMDP | higher education institution |
| Pacific University | — |
| Universidad del Valle | higher education institution |
|
Princeton
surface form:
Princeton University
|
private research university |
| Universidad de las Américas Puebla | — |
| Ibn Zohr University | higher education institution |
| Naval School | higher education institution |
| Rollins College | private liberal arts college |
| University of León | higher education institution |
| St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill | higher education institution |
| Nizhny Tagil Technological Institute | higher education institution |
| Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology | higher education institution |
| American University of Paris | — |
| Newbury College | higher education institution |
|
DePauw Tigers men's basketball
surface form:
DePauw University
|
private liberal arts college |
| Universidad Icesi | Private university |
| Stonehill College | private college |
| Escola Nacional de Belas Artes | higher education institution |
|
Concordia College (nearby)
surface form:
Concordia College (Moorhead)
|
private liberal arts college |
| Fukuoka University | — |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali | — |
| Bryant University | — |
| Princeton University | private research university |
| Business School of the University of Barcelona | higher education institution |
| Angelicum | Catholic university |
| PUST | Catholic university |
| Warren Wilson College | private college |
| UHI Millennium Institute | higher education institution |
| Al-Farabi Kazakh National University | higher education institution |
| University of Maine at Machias | higher education institution |
|
Transy
surface form:
Transylvania University
|
private liberal arts college |
|
Brandi N. Frisby (interim)
surface form:
Transylvania University
|
private liberal arts college |
| Mitchell College | private liberal arts college |
| Milan Conservatory | higher education institution |
| Conservatory of Bari | higher education institution |
| Augustana University | — |
| University of Sioux Falls | — |
| Silliman University | — |
| Negros Oriental State University | higher education institution |
| Shanghai University of Electric Power | higher education institution |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | — |
| Lalit Narayan Mithila University | higher education institution |
|
Ehwa Womans University (attended, did not graduate)
surface form:
Ehwa Womans University
|
private women’s university |
| Metropolitan State University | higher education institution |
| UA | higher education institution |
| University of Scranton | — |
|
William J. Porter University
surface form:
Jacksonville University
|
— |
|
Jacksonville Junior College
surface form:
Jacksonville University
|
— |
| Clark State College | higher education institution |
| Albion College | private liberal arts college |