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Lawrence Technological University
Lawrence Technological University, also known as Lawrence Tech, is a private technological university in Southfield, Michigan, founded in 1932 as the Lawrence Institute of Technology in Highland Park.
Lecturer
Lecturer is an academic title for a university teacher whose rank and duties vary by country: a permanent faculty rank in the UK and Commonwealth, a teaching-focused non-tenure post in the US, with Tudor-era origins.
Lee H. Roberts
Lee H. Roberts is an American investment executive and former North Carolina state budget director (2014-2016) who became the 13th chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill, serving as interim from January 2024 and permanent chancellor from August 2024.
Lee University
Lee University, also known as Lee U, is a private Christian university in Cleveland, Tennessee. Founded in 1918, it offers liberal arts and professional education.
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Beckett University, formerly Leeds Polytechnic and Leeds Metropolitan University, is a public university in Leeds, England, with university status since 1993, its current name since 2014, over 253,000 alumni, and an estimated £1.43 billion UK economic impact.
Lehigh University
Lehigh University is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, founded in 1865 by industrialist Asa Packer with what was then the largest single gift to an American educational institution.
Leiden University
Leiden University (Universiteit Leiden), founded 8 February 1575 by William of Orange after the siege of Leiden, is the Netherlands' oldest university, based in Leiden and The Hague with seven faculties, the LUMC, and the CWTS Leiden Ranking.
Leipzig University
Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig), founded 1409, is a German U15 comprehensive university with 14 faculties, 450 professorships, and over 30,000 students, guided by the HEP 2032 and the Leipzig Way.
LeMoyne–Owen College
LeMoyne–Owen College is a private, historically black liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee. It was formed in 1968 by merging LeMoyne College and Owen Junior College.
Lewis & Clark College
Lewis & Clark College, a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, founded 1867 as Albany Collegiate Institute; three schools including a law school; 137-acre Fir Acres campus; about 1,989 undergraduates; NWCCU-accredited.
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Catholic, Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, founded in 1932 as an aviation school. Known for its FAA-approved aviation programs, NCAA Division II Flyers, and 2023-2025 merger with St. Augustine College.
Liberal arts college
Liberal arts college: a U.S. private, usually small institution offering mainly undergraduate arts-and-sciences degrees, emphasizing undergraduate experience over graduate research; rooted in the medieval seven liberal arts, with Dutch adaptations and current closure pressures.
Liberal arts colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in the United States, also called LACs, are undergraduate-focused institutions teaching humanities, sciences, and social sciences; 244 fit the Carnegie Baccalaureate Colleges category, with small classes and high graduate placement.
Liberty University
Liberty University, formerly Liberty Baptist College, is a private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded in 1971 by pastor Jerry Falwell Sr. and among the world's largest Christian universities.
Library of Trinity College Dublin
Library of Trinity College Dublin (Leabharlann Choláiste na Tríonóide), Ireland's largest library, founded 1592; legal deposit since 1801; over 6 million volumes; home of the Book of Kells in the 1732 Old Library and its 65-meter Long Room, now undergoing the Old Library Redevelopment Project.
Lincoln College, Oxford
Lincoln College, Oxford: constituent college of the University of Oxford founded 1427 by Bishop Richard Fleming, eighth Oxford college, on Turl Street; reconstituted 1478, first Oxford MCR, women admitted 1979.
Lincoln University (Missouri)
Lincoln University (Missouri) is a state-assisted public historically black university in Jefferson City. Established in 1866 by US Colored Infantry veterans, it is Missouri's only 1890 land-grant institution.
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
Lincoln University, also known as Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, is a public historically black university in Chester County, Pennsylvania, chartered in 1854 as the nation's first degree-granting HBCU.
Lindenwood University
Lindenwood University is a private nonprofit university in Saint Charles, Missouri, founded in 1832 by George and Mary Easton Sibley (corrected from 1827 in 2023), HLC-accredited since 1921, NCAA Division I in the Ohio Valley Conference since 2022.
Lipscomb University
Lipscomb University, also called Nashville Bible School and David Lipscomb College, is a private Church of Christ-affiliated university in Nashville, Tennessee, founded 1891, with 5,007 students in fall 2026, NCAA Division I Bisons athletics, and SACSCOC accreditation.
List of academic fields
List of academic fields: the major branches of study organized by ISCED-F 2013 (11 broad fields, 00–10) and the six FORD research fields, plus national schemes such as China's 2026 catalog and the Carnegie program-mix classification.
List of academic ranks
Academic ranks are graded faculty titles such as assistant, associate, and full professor, with parallel teaching, research, clinical, and librarian series; US, UK, and European ladders differ in titles and promotion criteria.
List of admission tests to colleges and universities
Admission tests to colleges and universities: national exit exams, institution entrance exams, SAT/ACT, and GRE. OECD reports 18 countries using national exams for public tertiary admission; acceptance ranges from 34% (Scotland) to 95% (France).
List of agricultural universities and colleges
List of agricultural universities and colleges: ICAR-maintained rosters of India's State Agricultural Universities, central agricultural universities, and ICAR deemed universities (IARI, IVRI, NDRI, CIFE), plus accreditation lists and comparable systems such as the Philippines' NUCAFs and PIAFs.
List of agricultural universities in India
Agricultural universities in India: ICAR-coordinated State Agricultural Universities, Central Agricultural Universities, ICAR deemed universities (IARI, IVRI, NDRI, CIFE), and central universities with agriculture faculties, founded on the US land-grant model from 1960.
List of colleges and universities in Chicago
Colleges and universities in Chicago: 66 institutions (33 private nonprofit, 22 for-profit, 11 public), including University of Illinois Chicago, University of Chicago, DePaul, Loyola, and seven City Colleges of Chicago campuses.
List of colleges and universities in Florida
Florida colleges and universities: 374 degree-granting institutions across the 12-university State University System, 28 Florida College System colleges, 30 ICUF private nonprofits, and a large for-profit sector.
List of colleges and universities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Colleges and universities in Georgia (U.S. state): 26 University System of Georgia institutions under the Board of Regents, 22 technical colleges, and GNPEC-authorized private schools, from the 1785 University of Georgia onward.
List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts
Massachusetts colleges and universities: the public DHE system of 15 community colleges, 9 state universities, and 6 UMass campuses, plus accredited private institutions, with fall 2025 enrollment of 172,499.
List of colleges and universities in Michigan
List of colleges and universities in Michigan: 15 public universities, 31 community and Tribal colleges, and 37 private nonprofit four-year campuses, organized by sector, Carnegie classification, and state programs like Michigan Reconnect and Sixty by 30.