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  2. University of the People - Wikipedia

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    University of the People was started by Shai Reshef in January 2009. [2] The university has no campus due to its online distance learning nature; it uses a shared office in California as an office of admission. [3] The first UoPeople students began classes in September 2009, studying for associate and bachelor's degrees in business ...

  3. University of Washington - Wikipedia

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    The University of Washington ( UW [a] and informally U-Dub or U Dub [b]) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the United States. The university has a 703-acre (284 ha) main campus located in the city's ...

  4. University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service.

  5. University of Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Website. missouri .edu. The University of Missouri ( Mizzou or MU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri 's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River. [15]

  6. University of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    University of Virginia. /  38.03556°N 78.50333°W  / 38.03556; -78.50333. The University of Virginia ( UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  7. University of Oregon - Wikipedia

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    The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Indian Reservation in Western Oregon.

  8. University of California - Wikipedia

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    The University of California ( UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and ...

  9. University of Florida - Wikipedia

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    The University of Florida ( Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member and flagship of the State University System of Florida. The university traces its origins to 1853 [12] and has operated continuously on its Gainesville campus since September 1906.