University vs. Campus

Universitynoun

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.

‘The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.’;

Campusnoun

The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

‘The campus is sixty hectares in size.’;

Universitynoun

The universe; the whole.

Campusnoun

An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

‘During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.’;

Universitynoun

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

‘The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others.’;

Campusverb

To confine to campus as a punishment.

Universitynoun

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 present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.’;

Campusnoun

The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

Universitynoun

the body of faculty and students at a university

Campusnoun

a college or university.

Universitynoun

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

Campusnoun

a division of a university with its own buildings and a separate faculty, especially one separated geographically from other divisiona, but sharing top administration with other units of the university; as, the Newark campus of Rutgers.

Universitynoun

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

Campusnoun

higher education considered as a whole; as, the financial effects of research cutbacks on the campus.

University

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.

Campusnoun

a business site with pleasant landscaping; as, the Squibb research campus at Princeton.

Campusnoun

a field on which the buildings of a university are situated

Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a college campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls, student centers or dining halls, and park-like settings.