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Darul Uloom Deoband (دار العلوم دیوبند)
Darul Uloom Deoband (دار العلوم دیوبند), founded 1866 in Deoband, India, by Qasim Nanautawi and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, is the leading South Asian Islamic seminary; its dars-i nizami curriculum, community funding, and institutional model spawned the global Deobandi madrasa network.
Davidson College
Davidson College, a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina, founded by Presbyterians in 1837; known for its student-run Honor Code, loan-free full-need financial aid, $1.7 billion endowment, and documented history with slavery and integration.
Dayananda Sagar University
Dayananda Sagar University (DSU), a private unitary university in Bengaluru, Karnataka, established under Karnataka Act 20 of 2013 and notified 16 May 2014, run by the Mahatma Gandhi Vidya Peetha Trust with eight schools and campuses at Harohalli and Kudlu Gate.
De La Salle University
De La Salle University (Pamantasang De La Salle, DLSU) is a private Catholic research university in Manila, Philippines, founded in 1911 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, granted university status in 1975, with Manila and Laguna campuses.
De Montfort University
De Montfort University (DMU), a public university in Leicester, England, founded as the Leicester School of Art in 1870 and granted university status on 26 June 1992; named for Simon de Montfort, with Leicester, Dubai, London, Cambodia and Kazakhstan campuses, block teaching, 26,000 students, and REF 2021 with over 60% world-leading research.
Deakin University
Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia, established in 1974 as the state's fourth university and named after Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, with its founding campus near Geelong.
Dean (education)
Dean (education): head of a college, school, or division in a university, from Latin decanus. Reports to the provost; oversees curriculum, faculty, budget, accreditation, and fundraising; a middle-level leadership role with rising turnover.
Death penalty (NCAA)
NCAA "death penalty": harshest sanction, suspending a sport program for repeat violators. Applied once in Division I, to SMU football in 1987; SMU also canceled 1988, and no Division I program has received it since.
Deep Springs College
Deep Springs College is a two-year liberal arts college founded in 1917. It is located on a California ranch and focuses on academics, self-governance, and manual labor.
Defence Universities Alliance
Defence Universities Alliance (DUA): UK MOD-led network of 35 founding universities launched 13 July 2026 by Luke Pollard, part of a £182 million defence skills package, with three aims: defence research, skills and careers, and collaboration.
Defense Acquisition University
Defense Acquisition University (DAU), established by DAWIA in 1990 under 10 U.S.C. 1746, is the Department of Defense's training institution for the acquisition workforce, providing certification courses, online learning, and acquisition policy research.
Defense Language Institute
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, formerly the Army Language School, is the U.S. Defense Department's primary foreign language school at the Presidio of Monterey, California, founded in 1941.
Delft University of Technology
Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft, TU Delft) is the oldest and largest Dutch technical university, founded 8 January 1842 by King Willem II as a Royal Academy in Delft; renamed Polytechnische School 1864, Technische Hogeschool 1905, and TU Delft 1986, with 26,000+ students and eight faculties.
Delhi Technological University
Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering and originally Delhi Polytechnic (1941), is a Delhi state university reconstituted by Delhi Act 6 of 2009, with a 164-acre Bawana Road campus, 21 UG and 36 PG programs, and NIRF 2025 Overall rank 62.
Delhi University
Delhi University, formally the University of Delhi (Hindi: दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय), is a central university in Delhi, India, established in 1922, with about 90 colleges and over 600,000 students.
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta, ΔΔΔ) is a women's fraternity founded at Boston University on Thanksgiving Eve 1888 by Sarah Ida Shaw and Eleanor Dorcas Pond; NPC member, nearly 250,000 members, St. Jude philanthropy.
Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ)
Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE, Deke) is a social fraternity founded at Yale College on June 22, 1844, with 15 founders; over 64 chapters, 85,000 members, five US presidents, and repeated hazing and misconduct sanctions.
Delta Sigma Theta
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is a historically African American service sorority founded in 1913 at Howard University, with over 300,000 members and more than 900 chapters.
Delta Tau Delta
Delta Tau Delta, a men's social fraternity founded in 1858 at Bethany College, West Virginia, with truth, courage, faith, and power as principles; 130+ chapters, 170,000+ initiates, and documented hazing cases at NAU, Penn State, and Ball State.
Denison University
Denison University, founded 1831 in Granville, Ohio as Granville Literary and Theological Institution, is a private residential liberal arts college with about 2,200 students, 65+ programs, BA/BS/BFA degrees, and NCAA Division III Big Red athletics.
Dental degree
Dental degree: the professional qualification for practicing dentistry, chiefly the DDS and DMD in the US and Canada and the BDS in the UK; established 1840 at Baltimore, equivalent DDS/DMD titles, CODA accreditation, INBDE exam.
DePaul University
DePaul University: private Catholic Vincentian research university (Carnegie R2) in Chicago, founded 1898 as St. Vincent's College, first U.S. Catholic university to admit women; Lincoln Park and Loop campuses, ~14,090 undergraduates, $48,180 tuition.
DePauw University
DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana, founded in 1837 as Indiana Asbury University, enrolling about 1,900 undergraduates with no graduate programs, a 10:1 student-faculty ratio, and a three-school structure.
Derek Bok
Derek Bok, Harvard's 25th president (1971-1991) and interim president 2006-2007, former Harvard Law School dean, author of nine higher-education books including The Shape of the River and Attacking the Elites.
DeVry University
DeVry University, a private for-profit U.S. university founded in 1931 as DeForest Training School, offers business, technology, and healthcare degrees online and on campus; HLC-accredited, sold by Adtalem to Cogswell Education in 2018, and subject of a $100 million FTC settlement.
Dhaka Central University
Dhaka Central University (ঢাকা সেন্ট্রাল ইউনিভার্সিটি, DCU) is an autonomous public federal university in Dhaka, Bangladesh, established 8 February 2026 as the country's 57th public and 5th autonomous university, uniting seven government colleges formerly affiliated with Dhaka University.
Dickinson College
Dickinson College, a private liberal-arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, chartered 1783 and named for John and Mary Norris Dickinson; first U.S. college chartered after independence, test-optional since 1994, a leader in study abroad and sustainability.
DigiPen Institute of Technology
DigiPen Institute of Technology, founded 1988 in Vancouver by Claude Comair and based in Redmond, Washington, is a private college and the first school to offer a bachelor's degree in video game development, with campuses in Singapore and Bilbao.
Dillard University
Dillard University, a private historically Black liberal arts university in New Orleans, Louisiana's first HBCU, formed from the 1935 merger of Straight College and New Orleans University, both founded in 1869.
Diploma
Diploma: an official document attesting completed study, treated by UNESCO as a qualification alongside certificates and degrees; recognized across borders under the Global Convention (in force 2023) and increasingly issued as blockchain-verified digital credentials, as at MIT since 2017.