University vs. Campus — What's the Difference?

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 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.

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.

The grounds and buildings of an institution, especially a college or other institution of learning, a hospital, or a corporation.

The buildings and grounds of such an institution.

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

The body of students and faculty of such an institution.

An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

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.

To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.

The universe; the whole.

(climbing) To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.

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

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

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

A college or university.

The body of faculty and students at a university

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.

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

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

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

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

A field on which the buildings of a university are situated