This is a list of lists of universities and colleges.

Subject of study

Aerospace engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

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Business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

* Chiropractic * Engineering * Forestry * Law * Maritime studies * Medicine * Music *

Nanotechnology Nanotechnology, also shortened to nanotech, is the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal o ...

* Osteopathy *

Pharmaceuticals A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and rel ...

Social Work Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work ...

Institution type

* Community colleges * For-profit universities and colleges * Land-grant universities * Liberal arts universities * National universities * Postgraduate-only institutions * Private universities * Public universities * Research universities * Technical universities * Sea-grant universities * Space-grant universities *

State universities and colleges A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national universi ...

* Unaccredited universities

Location

* Lists of universities and colleges by country * List of largest universities

Religious affiliation

Assemblies of God The Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 144 autonomous self-governing national groupings of churches that together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination."Assemblies of God". ...

* Baptist colleges and universities in the United States * Catholic universities :* Ecclesiastical universities :* Benedictine colleges and universities :* Jesuit institutions :* Opus Dei universities :* Pontifical universities :* International Council of Universities of Saint Thomas Aquinas :* International Federation of Catholic Universities * Christian churches and churches of Christ *

Churches of Christ The Churches of Christ is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations based on the ''sola scriptura'' doctrine. Their practices are based on Bible texts and draw on the early Christian church as described in the New Testament. T ...

* Church of the Nazarene * Islamic seminaries * Lutheran colleges and universities *

International Association of Methodist-related Schools, Colleges, and Universities International Association of Methodist-related Schools, Colleges, and Universities (IAMSCU) is a private, not-for-profit organization of schools, colleges and universities associated with Methodist-Wesleyan tradition. All the member institutions ...

* Muslim educational institutions * Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities

Extremities

Endowment Endowment most often refers to: *A term for human penis size It may also refer to: Finance *Financial endowment, pertaining to funds or property donated to institutions or individuals (e.g., college endowment) *Endowment mortgage, a mortgage to b ...

* Largest universities by enrollment * Oldest madrasahs in continuous operation *

Oldest universities in continuous operation This article contains a list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation in the world. Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the educational institute first met the traditional definition of a university used ...

Other

* Colleges and universities named after people

History

Medieval universities A medieval university was a corporation organized during the Middle Ages for the purposes of higher education. The first Western European institutions generally considered to be universities were established in present-day Italy (including ...

* Ancient universities in Britain and Ireland