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.

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.)