''Universitas'' is a
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
word meaning "the whole, total, the universe, the world", or in
Roman law
Roman law is the law, legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor J ...
a
society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Socie ...
or
corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and r ...
; the latter sense is where the word
university
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...
is derived from.
Universitas may also refer to:
*
Universitas 21
Universitas 21 (U21) is an international network of research-intensive universities. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1997 with 11 members, it has grown to include twenty-eight member universities in nineteen countries and territories.
The uni ...
, an international network of research-intensive universities
*
Universitas 21 Global
GlobalNxt University (formerly Universitas 21 Global or U21Global) is an accredited university with academic headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The university specialises primarily in management studies.
History
U21Global was formed in Ju ...
or U21Global, an online graduate school backed by Universitas 21
*
''Universitas'' (newspaper), a weekly student newspaper at the University of Oslo
*
Universitas, Bloemfontein
Universitas used to be a white suburb of the city of Bloemfontein during the Apartheid era. Today, the racial composition is mixed, and a significant number of the family homes in the suburb have been adapted to serve as communal student accommoda ...
, a suburb of Bloemfontein, South Africa
*
905 Universitas
905 Universitas is an S-type asteroid orbiting in the Main belt as part of the Flora family
The Flora family (''adj. Florian''; ; also known as ''Ariadne family'') is a prominent family of stony asteroids located in the inner region of the ast ...
, an asteroid
* A student body, first used to describe the
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...
in the 11th century
*
Universitas Indonesia railway station
Universitas Indonesia Station (UI) is a railway station located in Pondok Cina, Beji, Depok. This station is located on the eastern perimeter of University of Indonesia complex. This station is one of two railway stations serving University of I ...
, a railway station in Depok, West Java, Indonesia
*
Universitas Pancasila railway station, a railway station in Jakarta, Indonesia
*
UNIVERSITAS, the Scientific Papers Authors and Publishers Society, located in Kraków, Małopolska, Poland
{{disambiguation