private university

higher education institution not operated by a government
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private university

Summary

private university is a type of university[1]. It draws 4,296 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_university category, ranking #3 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • private university's instance of is recorded as type of university[3].
  • private university is a type of university[4].
  • private university is a type of private educational institution[5].
  • private university's Commons category is recorded as Private higher education institutions[6].
  • private university is the opposite of public university[7].
  • private university's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Private universities and colleges[8].
  • private university's has characteristic is recorded as privately owned[9].
  • private university's has characteristic is recorded as private[10].
  • private university's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/resource/Private_university[11].
  • private university's equivalent class is recorded as https://global.dbpedia.org/id/53g3J[12].
  • private university's different from is recorded as private college[13].

Body

Definition and Type

private university's instance of is recorded as type of university[3]. Recorded subclass of include university[4] and private educational institution[5]. It is the opposite of public university[7].

Why It Matters

private university draws 4,296 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_university category, ranking #3 of 8).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . STW Thesaurus for Economics. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . DBpedia. Retrieved . dbpedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). private university. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/private-university
MLA “private university.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/private-university.
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: 2026-05-03}}
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Edit History

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  1. 6d 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 */ [[Property:P2959]]: [[Q139913860]]"
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