ABSTRACT
Modeled on Fitzroy Dearborn's highly successful International Dictionary of Historic Places , the International Dictionary of University Histories provides basic information on 200 institutions--location, description, sources of further information--followed by an extensive 3000 to 5000 word essay on each university's history. Entries on each university conclude with a Further Reading list, and most entries are illustrated. Coverage is world-wide, and entries range from the great medieval institutions (Oxford, Heidelberg, the Sorbonne) to the great historic universities of the United States, to the newer universities of Australia and South Africa, to the lesser-known universities of India, China, and Japan. More than 200 writers, researchers and archival departments of the universities themselves have contributed to the Dictionary . Entries include those universities with the most fascinating histories and those that have played important roles in the development of their own countries and in the furtherance of world scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |3 pages
Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark)
entry |3 pages
Aarhus University (Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark)
entry |5 pages
Al-Azhar University (Cairo, Egypt)
entry |4 pages
Albert Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany)
entry |3 pages
Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India)
entry |4 pages
Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Antioch University (Yellow Springs, Ohio, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Atlanta University Center (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Barnard College (New York, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Beijing University (Beijing, China)
entry |4 pages
Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)
entry |3 pages
Chinese University of Hong Kong (New Territories, Hong Kong)
entry |4 pages
The Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.)
entry |9 pages
City University of New York (New York, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Claremont Colleges (Claremont, California, U.S.A.)
entry |2 pages
College of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
entry |4 pages
College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Columbia University (New York, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |3 pages
Complutense University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
entry |5 pages
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan)
entry |5 pages
Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
entry |4 pages
École Nationale D'Administration (Paris, France)
entry |4 pages
École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France)
entry |4 pages
École Polytechnique (Paris, France)
entry |4 pages
Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland)
entry |3 pages
Federal University of Rio De Janeiro (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
entry |2 pages
Free University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
entry |4 pages
Gallaudet University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Georgetown University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Georgia Augustus University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany)
entry |4 pages
Guilford College (Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel)
entry |5 pages
Howard University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Humboldt University (Berlin, Gemany)
entry |4 pages
Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (New Delhi, India)
entry |4 pages
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.)
entry |3 pages
Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, India)
entry |4 pages
Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland)
entry |4 pages
Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India)
entry |5 pages
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Keio University (Tokyo, Japan)
entry |3 pages
Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan)
entry |5 pages
Laval University (Quebec, Canada)
entry |3 pages
Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany)
entry |4 pages
Loránd Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary)
entry |3 pages
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (Munich, Germany)
entry |4 pages
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Wittenberg, Germany)
entry |5 pages
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
entry |5 pages
Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
entry |3 pages
National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
entry |4 pages
National University of Ireland (Republic of Ireland)
entry |3 pages
National University of San Marcos (Lima, Peru)
entry |5 pages
New School for Social Research (New York, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
New York University (New York, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.)
entry |3 pages
Philipps University of Marburg (Marburg an der Lahn, Germany)
entry |5 pages
Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Radcliffe College (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Reed College (Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Rice University (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.)
entry |3 pages
Ruprecht Karls University (Heidelberg, Germany)
entry |4 pages
Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
St. John's College (Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Seoul National University (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
entry |5 pages
Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |6 pages
Stanford University (Stanford, California, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
State University of New York (New York, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Strasbourg University (Strasbourg, France)
entry |3 pages
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
entry |4 pages
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel)
entry |3 pages
Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
United States Military Academy at West Point (West Point, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland)
entry |3 pages
University of Aix-Marseille (Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, France)
entry |3 pages
University of Alcalá De Henares (Alcalá De Henares, Spain)
entry |3 pages
University of Arizona (Tyicson, Arizona, U.S.A.)
entry |3 pages
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
entry |3 pages
University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France)
entry |4 pages
University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
entry |9 pages
University of California (California, U.S.A.)
entry |7 pages
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England)
entry |4 pages
University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
entry |4 pages
University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)
entry |4 pages
University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
University of Chile (Santiago, Chile)
entry |4 pages
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
entry |3 pages
University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
entry |5 pages
University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
entry |6 pages
University of Dublin Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
entry |4 pages
University of Durham (Durham, England)
entry |5 pages
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland)
entry |3 pages
University of Florence (Florence, Italy)
entry |4 pages
University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland)
entry |4 pages
University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
entry |5 pages
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A)
entry |6 pages
University of Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands)
entry |7 pages
University of London (London, England)
entry |4 pages
University of Louvain (Louvain, Belgium)
entry |3 pages
University of Manchester (Manchester, England)
entry |3 pages
University of Melbourne (Parkville, Australia)
entry |5 pages
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
University of Montpellier (Montpellier, France)
entry |5 pages
University of Mumbai (Bombay) (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
entry |4 pages
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
University of Orléans (Orléans, France)
entry |4 pages
University of Oxford (Oxfordshire, England)
entry |8 pages
University of Paris (Paris, France)
entry |4 pages
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy)
entry |3 pages
University of Poitiers (Poitiers, France)
entry |5 pages
University of Rochester (Rochester, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |3 pages
University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland)
entry |5 pages
University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
entry |3 pages
University of Seville (Seville, Spain)
entry |4 pages
University of Siena (Siena, Italy)
entry |4 pages
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.)
entry |7 pages
University of Sydney (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
entry |6 pages
University of Texas System (Texas, U.S.A)
entry |6 pages
University of the South (Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa)
entry |5 pages
University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
entry |4 pages
University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
entry |4 pages
University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
entry |3 pages
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
entry |5 pages
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
University of Wales (Cardiff, Wales)
entry |5 pages
University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
University of Wisconsin (Wisconsin, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden)
entry |4 pages
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.)
entry |5 pages
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A.)
entry |3 pages
Visva-Bharati University (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India)
entry |3 pages
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Virginia, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.)
entry |3 pages
Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel)
entry |6 pages
Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Willamette University (Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.)
entry |4 pages
Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
entry |6 pages
Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.)