Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Organizations (hierarchy name)
4. organizations (groups)
5. institutions (organizations)
6. [institutions by activity]
7. educational institutions
8. schools (institutions)

Narrower term/s

• state universities (institutions)
• urban universities (institutions)
• university systems

Anotations

Scope note:

Degree-granting institutions that may include liberal arts undergraduate colleges, graduate schools, and undergraduate or graduate professional schools. A university is a group of schools for studies after secondary school, with at least one of these schools being a college where students receive a bachelor's degree.