body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"

academe, academia - the academic world

grad school, graduate school - a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree

varsity - a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University

Brown University, Brown - a university in Rhode Island

Cambridge, Cambridge University - a university in England

Carnegie-Mellon University - an engineering university in Pittsburgh

city university - an urban university in a large city

Columbia University, Columbia - a university in New York City

Cooper Union, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences

Cornell University - a university in Ithaca, New York

Duke University - a university in Durham, North Carolina

establishment - a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence

Harvard, Harvard University - a university in Massachusetts

Johns Hopkins - a university in Baltimore

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT - an engineering university in Cambridge

Ohio State University - a university in Columbus, Ohio

Oxbridge - general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)

Oxford University, Oxford - a university in England

Paris University, Sorbonne, University of Paris - a university in Paris; intellectual center of France

Princeton University, Princeton - a university in New Jersey

redbrick university - (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University

Stanford University, Stanford - a university in California

University of California at Berkeley - a univeristy in Berkeley, California

University of Chicago - a university in Chicago, Illinois

University of Michigan - a university in Ann Arbor, Michigan

University of Nebraska - a university in Lincoln, Nebraska

University of North Carolina - a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

University of Pennsylvania, Penn, Pennsylvania - a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh - a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sussex University, University of Sussex - a red-brick university in Brighton, England

University of Texas - a university in Austin, Texas

University of Vermont - a university in Burlington, Vermont

University of Washington - a university in Seattle, Washington

University of West Virginia - a university in Morgantown, West Virginia

University of Wisconsin - a university in Madison, Wisconsin

Yale, Yale University - a university in Connecticut

educational institution - an institution dedicated to education

college - an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

multiversity - a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers

Open University - a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school