Public university facts for kids

Front view of Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka, Bangladesh

A public university is a university that is in state ownership or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape.

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  The University of Virginia, a public university in the United States

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  Cairo University, the prime indigenous model for Egyptian state universities

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  Barishal University in Barishal, a public university in Bangladesh.

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  West Gate of Peking University

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  University of Mumbai, a public university in India.

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  Sebelas Maret University, one of Indonesia's prominent public universities.

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  Tokyo Metropolitan University, a public university in Japan.

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  University of Peshawar, Pakistan

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  The University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City

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  The main auditorium at Chulalongkorn University

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  Ghent University in Ghent

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  The University of Coimbra in Coimbra

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  The University of Barcelona in Barcelona

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  Birkbeck, University of London in London

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  Old College of the University of Edinburgh

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  The University of Sydney in Sydney

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  The University of Otago in Dunedin

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  The University of Buenos Aires is a public university in Argentina.

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  Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil

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  The University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada

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  The Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile

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  UNAM main campus in Mexico City

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  The National University of San Marcos is the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas.

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  The College of William & Mary is one of the claimants to be the oldest public university in the United States

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  Long Beach City College, a public community college in the United States

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  The University of California, Berkeley, the flagship public university of California

See also

In Spanish: Universidad pública para niños