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A university ( Latin : universitas , "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary ) education and research which grants academic degrees in various subjects and typically provides undergraduate education and postgraduate education . The word "university" is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars."
The original Latin word " universitas " refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation , etc." At the time of the emergence of urban town life and medieval guilds , specialised "associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights usually guaranteed by charters issued by princes, prelates, or the towns in which they were located" came to be denominated by this general term. Like other guilds, they were self-regulating and d
In modern usage the word has come to mean "An institution of higher education offering tuition in mainly non-vocational subjects and typically having the power to confer degrees," with the earlier emphasis on its corporate organization considered as applying historically to Medieval universities.