university system

Collegiate institutional federation

A university system is a group of universities administered together under unified governance, typically sharing resources, policies, and branding while maintaining distinct campuses: the University of California system, the State University of New York system.

Individual schools within a system often have different specializations or admission standards.

The term also describes higher education structures at the national level: the German university system.

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institutional scale and organization

university systemprivate college

Self-funded higher education institution

community college · liberal arts college

formality of education

university systemautodidacticism

Practice of self-instruction

self-education · self-directed learning · unschooling · school of hard knocks · apprenticeship

access and structure

university systemfree education

Taxpayer-funded instruction

universal education · MOOCs · public library

Family

system, university, universities, interuniversity, preuniversity

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