Polytechnic vs. University — What's the Difference?

Offering, receiving, or dealing with instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences

A university (Latin: universitas, 'a whole') 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.

A school specializing in the teaching of industrial arts and applied sciences.

An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities typically including a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.

That teaches applied arts, sciences, technology, engineering and other academic subjects

The buildings and grounds of such an institution.

An educational institute that teaches applied arts and sciences rather than academic subjects.

The body of students and faculty of such an institution.

(obsolete) An exhibition of objects illustrating many arts.

Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

(Singapore) A three-year post-secondary vocational training institute, equivalent of community college in the U.S. or TAFE in Australia.

The universe; the whole.

Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; - applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; as, a polytechnic institute; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.

A technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences

An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty

The body of faculty and students at a university

Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

A large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees