''Universitas'' is a
Latin
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word meaning "the whole, total, the universe, the world", or in
Roman law
Roman law is the law, legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (), to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I.
Roman law also den ...
a
society
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or
corporation
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; the latter sense is where the word
university
A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...
is derived from.
Universitas may also refer to:
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Universitas 21
Universitas 21 (U21) is an international network of research-intensive universities. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1997 with 11 members, it has grown to include twenty-nine member universities in nineteen countries and territories.
The uni ...
, an international network of research-intensive universities
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Universitas 21 Global
GlobalNxt University (formerly Universitas 21 Global or U21Global) is an accredited university with academic headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The university specialises primarily in business management and leadership studies.
History
U2 ...
or U21Global, an online graduate school backed by Universitas 21
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''Universitas'' (newspaper), a weekly student newspaper at the University of Oslo
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Universitas, Bloemfontein
Universitas used to be a white suburb of the city of Bloemfontein during the Apartheid era. Today, the racial composition is mixed, and a significant number of the family homes in the suburb have been adapted to serve as communal student accommoda ...
, a suburb of Bloemfontein, South Africa
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905 Universitas
905 Universitas is an S-type asteroid
S-type (stony-type or silicaceous-type) asteroids are asteroids with a spectral type that is indicative of a siliceous (i.e. stony) mineralogical composition, hence the name. They have relatively high de ...
, an asteroid
* A student body, first used to describe the
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna (, abbreviated Unibo) is a Public university, public research university in Bologna, Italy. Teaching began around 1088, with the university becoming organised as guilds of students () by the late 12th century. It is the ...
in the 11th century
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Universitas Indonesia railway station
Universitas Indonesia Station (UI) is a railway station located in Pondok Cina, Beji, Depok, West Java, Indonesia. The station is located on the eastern perimeter of University of Indonesia complex, between Pondok Cina Station and Universita ...
, a railway station in Depok, West Java, Indonesia
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Universitas Pancasila railway station, a railway station in Jakarta, Indonesia
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UNIVERSITAS, the Scientific Papers Authors and Publishers Society, located in Kraków, Małopolska, Poland
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