Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Universities

Educational institutions providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Educational institutions providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.

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  • University

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

IM; Manual 30.8, 36.18; specify locale if pertinent; colleges as educ institutions go here: do not confuse with bodies such as "College of Physicians" which are indexed under SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), under US Dept of Defense, goes under SCHOOLS, MEDICAL + UNITED STATES; DF: UNIV

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  1. I02w.783w.830w
  2. J03.832w.830w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Universities. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014495. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014495
  2. Universities. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University
  3. Universities. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3918