higher education institution
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institution that provides higher education (e.g., universities, vocational universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, institutes of technology, and others)
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- educational institution
- Field of work
- higher education
- Has use
- higher education
- Has parts of class
- faculty
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- model item
- University of Oxford
- topic's main category
- Category:Universities and colleges
- equivalent class
- schema.org/CollegeOrUniversity
- has characteristic
- college and university ranking
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Encyclopedic overview
Students attend a linear algebra lecture at a tertiary institution: Helsinki University of Technology in Finland. A student learning about automotive repair at the Chawama Youth Resource Centre in Lusaka, Zambia
Tertiary education (also called higher education or post-secondary education) is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank defines tertiary education as including universities, colleges, and vocational schools. Higher education is taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, while vocational education beyond secondary education is known as further education in the United Kingdom, or included under the category of continuing education in the United States.
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