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private university

higher education institution not operated by a government
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Summary

private university is a type of university[1]. It draws 5,239 Wikipedia views per month (type of university category, ranking #3 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: university[3], private educational institution[4]
  • Commons category: Private higher education institutions[5]
  • Opposite of: public university[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Private universities and colleges[7]
  • Has characteristic: privately owned[8], private[9]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Private_university[10], https://global.dbpedia.org/id/53g3J[11]
  • Different from: private college[12]

Why It Matters

private university has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . STW Thesaurus for Economics. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . DBpedia. Retrieved . dbpedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_private-university_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{private university}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/private-university}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → rLkg9
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0430206-soukrome-vysoke-skoly
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0430206-soukrome-vysoke-skoly, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  3. 20w ago · CCLIM · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → private college
    Subclass of → university, private educational institution
    Opposite of → public university
    Has characteristic → privately owned, private
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Permanent duplicated item: Q139913860"
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