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Columbia University School of General Studies
Columbia University School of General Studies (GS), founded July 1, 1947 from University Extension, is Columbia's undergraduate college for nontraditional students, veterans, and dual-degree seekers, granting the same BA as Columbia College.
Columbia University's settlement with the Trump administration
Columbia University's July 23, 2025 settlement with the Trump administration resolved federal anti-discrimination investigations with $221 million in payments, a compliance monitor, and restored research funding.
Columbus State University
Columbus State University, formerly Columbus College, is a public university in Columbus, Georgia. It opened as a junior college in 1958 and joined the University System of Georgia.
Common Admission Test
Common Admission Test (CAT): annual computer-based MBA entrance exam run by India's IIMs. Three sections (VARC, DILR, QA), 120 minutes, +3/−1 MCQ marking, score used by 22 IIMs and 1,000+ B-schools.
Common Law Admission Test
Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), India's national law entrance exam run by the Consortium of National Law Universities for 5-year LL.B. and LL.M. admission at participating NLUs; NLU Delhi alone uses AILET; 120-question, 2-hour offline paper with 0.25 negative marking.
Common University Entrance Test
Common University Entrance Test (CUET), also CUET-UG/CUET-PG, is India's NTA-conducted standardized entrance exam, run since 2022-23 under NEP 2020 for Central University and participating university admissions in 13 languages.
Community college
Community college: US public two-year institutions offering associate degrees, certificates, and transfer preparation; began as junior colleges with Joliet Junior College in 1901, named by the 1947 Truman Commission.
Community colleges in the United States
Community colleges in the United States are public two-year institutions awarding associate degrees and certificates, open to all students; the first, Joliet Junior College, opened in 1901 in Illinois.
Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)
Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) is a private ELCA liberal arts college founded by Norwegian settlers in 1891, enrolling about 2,000 students, offering 140+ areas of study, and home to Concordia Language Villages.
Concordia University
Concordia University, Montreal English-language university formed August 24, 1974 by merging Loyola College and Sir George Williams University; two campuses, about 50,000 students, named for Montreal's motto Concordia salus.
Conference USA
Conference USA (CUSA), NCAA Division I FBS athletic conference founded April 24, 1995 in Chicago, now based in Dallas with 12 members after Delaware and Missouri State joined in 2025; members' 2024-25 athletics revenue $415.4 million.
Confraternities in Nigeria
Confraternities in Nigeria, also called campus cults, are student fraternal groups founded from 1952 at Ibadan, including Black Axe, Eiye, and Vikings, now linked to violence, organized crime, and a 1990 national ban.
Connecticut College
Connecticut College, originally Connecticut College for Women, is a private liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut, chartered in 1911 and coeducational since 1969, with about 1,990 students.
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) is a French public institution of higher education, founded in Paris in 1794 to perfect the national industry.
Convictorio Carolino
The Convictorio Carolino was a residential college in Lima founded in 1770, a seedbed of Peruvian independence ideas, absorbed into the University of San Marcos in 1866.
Cooper Union
Cooper Union, also known as the Cooper Institute, is a private college in Manhattan's East Village founded by Peter Cooper in 1859 to teach art, architecture, and engineering.
Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen Business School (CBS, Handelshøjskolen) is a public Danish business university founded in 1917 in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. One of Europe's largest business schools with ~20,000 students, it is Triple Crown accredited (EQUIS, AACSB, AMBA) and one of Denmark's eight public universities.
Corinthian Colleges
Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (CCI), operator of Everest, Heald College, and WyoTech, was a for-profit college chain founded in 1995 that collapsed into bankruptcy in May 2015 after fraud investigations; $5.8 billion in student loans were later discharged.
Cornell University
Cornell University: private Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York, and New York State's land-grant institution. Founded 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White; unique hybrid of endowed and state-assisted contract colleges.
Covenant College
Covenant College, founded 1955 in Pasadena and located on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, since 1964, is a Reformed Christian liberal arts college of the Presbyterian Church in America with 1,074 undergraduates in fall 2026.
Coventry University
Coventry University, also known as Coventry Polytechnic before 1992, is a public university in Coventry, England, founded as the Coventry School of Design in 1843. Known for TEF Gold teaching, over 30,000 students, and a multi-campus group including London, Scarborough, and Wrocław.
Cranfield University
Cranfield University is the UK's only wholly postgraduate university, in Bedfordshire. Founded as the College of Aeronautics in 1946 on the former RAF Cranfield site, chartered as Cranfield Institute of Technology in 1969, renamed 1993.
Credential
Credential: documentation confirming a learner's qualifications issued by a trusted authority; covers degrees, certificates, licenses, badges, and micro-credentials, and relates to credential inflation, stackability, and labor market value.
Creighton University
Creighton University, a private Jesuit Catholic university in Omaha, Nebraska founded in 1878 by Mary Lucretia Creighton's bequest, with a Phoenix health sciences campus, 8,948 students, and nine schools including medicine, dentistry, and law.
Curtin University
Curtin University, formerly Curtin University of Technology, is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, formed from WAIT in 1987, named for Prime Minister John Curtin, with campuses in Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, Mauritius, and Colombo.
Daigaku-ryō
Daigaku-ryō (大学寮, also read ōtsukasa) was the central government academy for training officials under Japan's ritsu-ryō system, formalized by the Taihō Code of 701 and destroyed by fire in 1177.
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded 1818 by George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie) is a U15 Canadian research university with 13 faculties, about 21,000 students, $270M+ research funding, and campuses in Halifax, Truro, and Saint John.
Dalian Medical University
Dalian Medical University (大连医科大学), founded 1947 as Guandong Medical College in Dalian, Liaoning, is a provincial medical university; it moved to Zunyi 1969-1978, was renamed in 1994, and relocated to Lushunkou in 2007.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College, founded by royal charter in 1769 in Hanover, New Hampshire, is an Ivy League university with about 4,715 undergraduates, a 6% acceptance rate, quarter-system D-Plan calendar, and Geisel, Thayer, and Tuck professional schools.
Dartmouth College fraternities and sororities
Dartmouth College fraternities and sororities are Greek organizations at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. In Winter 2026, 70.98% of eligible students belonged to a GLASS organization.