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University Botanical Garden
The University Botanical Garden (Botanisk hage), Norway's oldest botanical garden, was established in 1814 at Tøyen in Oslo and is part of the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum.
University bridge clubs
University bridge clubs teach contract bridge to beginners, run regular play for members, and enter inter-university and national competitions, with documented clubs at Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, and Princeton.
University Challenge
University Challenge is a British television quiz show, based on College Bowl, first broadcast 21 September 1962 by Granada for ITV, hosted by Bamber Gascoigne, then Jeremy Paxman, then Amol Rajan, on BBC Two since 1994.
University Challenge 2025–26
University Challenge 2025–26, the 55th BBC Two student quiz series, ran 14 July 2025 to 20 April 2026, hosted by Amol Rajan. Manchester beat Edinburgh 145–105 for a record-equaling fifth title; captain Kai Madgwick answered all nine starters.
University Challenge 2026–27
University Challenge 2026–27 (Series 56) is the current BBC Two student quiz series hosted by Amol Rajan, starting 13 July 2026 with Bristol v Imperial, with Manchester defending the title won in the 2025–26 final.
University Clinical Centre
The University Clinical Centre (Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne, UCK) is a multi-specialty teaching hospital in Gdańsk, Poland, founded in 1945, with about 208,000 patients a year, the largest in Pomerania.
University College Cork
University College Cork (UCC), founded 1845 as Queen's College Cork and renamed 1908, is a National University of Ireland constituent university in Cork, ranked 220th in QS 2027 and 2nd worldwide in UI GreenMetric sustainability.
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath), Ireland's largest university, founded 1854 by John Henry Newman; NUI constituent college since 1908; 34,715 students in 2024/25 on a 133-hectare Belfield campus.
University College Hospital
University College Hospital (UCH), London teaching hospital at 235 Euston Road run by UCLH NHS Foundation Trust; founded 1834 as North London Hospital, first English university teaching hospital, rebuilt 2005.
University College Hospital, Ibadan
University College Hospital, Ibadan (UCH) is Nigeria's first teaching hospital, established by the 1952 University College Hospital Act and commissioned 20 November 1957 with 500 beds; affiliated with the University of Ibadan, it now has about 1,445 bed spaces and trains much of Nigeria's medical workforce.
University College London
University College London (UCL), founded 1826 as London University, is a secular research university in Bloomsbury and a constituent college of the federal University of London, with 29 Nobel Prizes, about 50,000 students, and firsts including admitting women to UK degrees in 1878.
University college of swansea herbarium
University College of Swansea herbarium (UCSA), Swansea University's dried plant collection; vascular plants donated in 2006 to National Museum Wales (4,256 specimens), bryophytes retained at Swansea.
University College, Oxford
University College Oxford (Univ), founded by William of Durham's 1249 bequest, claims to be Oxford's oldest college; King Alfred legend, Main Quad 1634-1676, Radcliffe Quad, Shelley's expulsion, first women 1979.
University for Peace
University for Peace (UPEACE, Universidad para la Paz), a UN-established international university in El Rodeo, Costa Rica, created by General Assembly Resolution 35/55 of 5 December 1980; 41 treaty parties, UN observer since 2008, mandated exclusively for peace education.
University Grants Commission (India)
University Grants Commission (UGC), India's statutory higher education regulator (est. 1953, statutory 1956), sets standards for universities and colleges, issues regulations, oversees NAAC and UGC-DEB, and faces proposed replacement by a single regulator.
University Health Network
University Health Network (UHN), Toronto, is Canada's largest research hospital network, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto; formed by 1986-1999 mergers, it runs Toronto General, Toronto Western, Princess Margaret, Toronto Rehab, Michener, and West Park across 10 sites.
University Health System
University Health System (University Health), the Bexar County Hospital District, is a San Antonio, Texas public academic health system founded in 1917; its University Hospital is the ACS-verified Level I adult and pediatric trauma center for 22 South Texas counties and teaches for UT Health San Antonio.
University High School (Los Angeles)
University High School (Los Angeles), also known as Uni, is a public secondary school in West Los Angeles, California. It serves grades 9 through 12 and was founded in 1924.
University Hospital
University Hospital: a teaching hospital combining patient care, teaching, and research equally (Peart's 1970 definition), and the name of hospitals in London Ontario, Columbia Missouri, Newark, and San Diego, each tied to a university medical school.
University Hospital Centre Zagreb
University Hospital Centre Zagreb (KBC Zagreb, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb) is Croatia's largest hospital and the University of Zagreb's teaching hospital, founded 1942 on Rebro, with 30 clinics, 1,148 beds, and a €174 million Phase III reconstruction.
University Hospital of Bern
University Hospital of Bern (Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern), founded 1354 by Anna Seiler, is Bern's university hospital, part of Insel Gruppe AG since 2016, with 37 clinics, a Level 1 trauma center, and top-ranked surgery and cardiology research.
University Hospital of the West Indies
University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Jamaica's first teaching hospital, opened 1953 beside the UWI Mona campus; a 579-bed Type A regional referral and training hospital for the Caribbean.
University Hospital Zurich
University Hospital Zurich (Universitätsspital Zürich, USZ) is the canton of Zurich's university hospital, a cantonal public-law institution with about 900 beds, 10,857 staff, a CHF 36 million 2025 profit, and the MITTE1|2 rebuild planned for 2031.
University Hospitals
University hospitals: hospitals maintained by or affiliated with a university for medical student teaching, postgraduate training, and clinical research; also the Cleveland-based University Hospitals health system, flagship University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.
University Ice Cap
University Ice Cap (UN) is an ice cap on October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic, adjacent to Karpinsky Ice Cap; first cored in 2021, showing thick melt layers and no surging.
University Interscholastic League
University Interscholastic League (UIL), Texas public school interscholastic organization founded 1910, formed 1913; administers academic, music, and athletic contests; state agency within UT Austin; six conferences 6A-1A.
University Link tunnel
The University Link tunnel, also known as U Link, is a 3.15-mile pair of bored light rail tunnels in Seattle carrying Sound Transit trains from downtown to the University of Washington, opened in 2016.
University Malaya Medical Centre
University Malaya Medical Centre (Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya), formerly University Hospital, is the teaching hospital of Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, officially opened in 1968 and among the country's oldest.
University Medical Center
University Medical Center (UMC), Lubbock, Texas; formerly Lubbock General Hospital and Health Sciences Center Hospital; county-owned teaching hospital for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; opened February 1, 1978; Level 1 trauma center with 503 licensed beds.
University Medical Center Groningen
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen): Dutch academic hospital and University of Groningen medical faculty, founded 1797 as Nosocomium Academicum; about 13,000 staff, first Dutch open-heart surgery 1957.