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Trinity Western University
Trinity Western University (TWU), private Christian liberal arts university in Langley, British Columbia, founded 1962 by the Evangelical Free Church; known for the 2018 Supreme Court of Canada law school covenant rulings.
Troy University
Troy University (TROY), public Alabama university founded in 1887 as Troy State Normal School; merged campuses into one university in 2005; main campus in Troy plus Dothan, Montgomery, online, and international programs; SACSCOC-accredited; 14,353 students in Fall 2025.
Truman State University
Truman State University, formerly Northeast Missouri State University, is a public liberal arts and sciences university in Kirksville, Missouri, founded in 1867 and renamed in 1996 for President Harry S. Truman.
Tsinghua University (清华大学)
Tsinghua University (清华大学), a comprehensive research university in Beijing founded in 1911 as Tsing Hua Imperial College, became National Tsing Hua University in 1928, a polytechnic in 1952, and now ranks first in Asia in THE 2026.
TU Dresden
TU Dresden (Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden University of Technology): public German technical university founded 1828; University of Excellence since 2012, TU9 member, 29,000 students, five excellence clusters.
Tuck School of Business
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, founded 1900 in Hanover, New Hampshire as the world's first graduate school of management; two-year residential MBA, ~10,700 alumni, highest alumni giving rate.
Tufts University
Tufts University (Pax et Lux), private research university founded 1852 near Boston; four campuses, ten schools; R1 Carnegie; Fletcher School oldest graduate-only international relations school; FY2025 endowment $2.8 billion.
Tuition fees in the United Kingdom
Tuition fees in the UK: devolved undergraduate fee caps, £9,535 in England 2025/26, free Scottish home tuition via SAAS, £4,750 in Northern Ireland, Plan 2 loan repayment terms, and history from 1998 to 2027/28.
Tulane University
Tulane University, formally the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, tracing its founding to the Medical College of Louisiana of 1834, the Deep South's first medical school.
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University, founded July 4, 1881 by Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, Alabama, is a private, state-related HBCU and the only private 1890 land-grant institution, with 3,366 students and president Mark A. Brown.
U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking
The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges ranking, published since 1983 and annual since 1988, ranks over 1,700 U.S. colleges by weighted outcomes, resources and peer assessment; the leading American college list, repeatedly overhauled amid boycotts.
U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking
U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking: annual global university ranking published since 2014, ranking 2,250+ schools in 100+ countries on 13 research-only indicators (citations, publications, reputation) using Clarivate Web of Science data.
UAAP Cheerdance Competition
UAAP Cheerdance Competition (CDC): annual cheerdance contest of Philippine UAAP universities, dance worth 50% of the score; NU Pep Squad holds a record nine titles after Season 88 in 2025.
UAAP Season 88
UAAP Season 88 is the 2025–26 University Athletic Association of the Philippines season hosted by the University of Santo Tomas under the theme "Strength in Motion, Hope in Action". It opened September 19, 2025 before 36,600-plus at UST, closed May 15, 2026, and featured a new volleyball green-card fair-play system and a La Salle basketball title over UP.
UC Davis pepper spray incident
UC Davis pepper spray incident: November 18, 2011, campus police pepper-sprayed seated Occupy protesters on the UC Davis Quad; the Reynoso task force ruled it unjustified, leading to reforms.
UC San Diego Tritons
UC San Diego Tritons: athletics teams and campus identity of UC San Diego, NCAA Division I, Big West Conference since 2020; first March Madness berths in 2025, 23 varsity sports, Triton Gaming and Triton Esports Center.
UCAS
UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) is the UK's independent charity operating the shared admissions service for higher education, handling nearly 3 million applications from 752,210 students in 2024, with five-choice applications, October and January deadlines, and Clearing.
UCAS Tariff
UCAS Tariff points convert UK post-16 qualifications and grades into a number used by some universities for entry requirements; only Level 3/SCQF Level 6 qualifications count, with A at A level worth 56 points under the 2017-revised scale.
Udacity
Udacity, founded 2011 by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, is an online tech-education company known for its trademarked project-based Nanodegree credentials with industry partners; it was acquired by Accenture in May 2024.
UGC Equity Regulations, 2026
UGC Equity Regulations, 2026: also called the Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, notified 13 January 2026 by India's UGC, replacing the 2012 rules with mandatory Equal Opportunity Centres, equity committees, and penalties; stayed by the Supreme Court on 29 January 2026.
Ukrainian Free University
Ukrainian Free University, also known by its German name Ukrainische Freie Universität, is a private Ukrainian-language university founded in exile in Vienna in 1921, based in Munich since 1945.
Umar Khalid
Umar Khalid (उमर ख़ालिद), born 1987, is an Indian activist and JNU historian on the Adivasis of Jharkhand, charged with sedition in the 2016 JNU case and held since September 2020 under the UAPA in the Delhi riots conspiracy case without trial.
UMass Chan Medical School
UMass Chan Medical School, formerly UMass Medical School, is Massachusetts' public academic health sciences center in Worcester, founded 1962, renamed 2021 after a $175M Morningside Foundation gift, with three graduate schools and Nobel laureates Mello and Ambros.
Umeå University
Umeå University (Umeå universitet), public university in Umeå, Sweden; inaugurated 17 September 1965 by King Gustaf VI Adolf as Sweden's fifth university; largest in northern Sweden with 43,736 students in 2025; CRISPR-Cas9 discovered there.
Undergraduate degree
Undergraduate degree: the first tertiary qualification, chiefly the bachelor's degree (ISCED level 6, UNESCO 'first university degree'). Distinguished from short-cycle tertiary and master's long first degrees; OECD data show 77% of first-time graduates earn one, with a 39% earnings premium.
Union College
Union College, Schenectady, New York: private undergraduate liberal arts college chartered 1795, home of the first social fraternity (Kappa Alpha, 1825), engineering within a liberal arts curriculum, about 2,000 students, NECHE-accredited since 2026.
Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, founded 1836, is an independent ecumenical graduate theology school in Manhattan, accredited by ATS and MSCHE, partnered with Columbia, offering eight degrees including prison-based MPS programs.
Union University
Union University is a private Christian university in Jackson, Tennessee, founded 1823 as Jackson Male Academy; renamed from Southwestern Baptist University in 1907; affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention and SACSCOC-accredited. Distinct from Union Theological College Belfast, Union University of California, and Virginia Union University.
United Nations University
United Nations University (UNU) is an autonomous UN organ that operates as a decentralized system of 13 institutes in 12 countries, and it is mandated to grant degrees.
United States Air Force Academy
The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is the Air Force and Space Force service academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Established April 1, 1954, first class sworn in 1955 at Lowry AFB, first graduation 1959; 4,400 authorized cadets, HLC-accredited.