Collocations for "university"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "university" in context.
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university
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [a public, a private, a state, a medical, a religious, an online, a prestigious, an expensive] university
- the [best, worst, newest, oldest] university (in)
- [study, teach, work] at (the) university
- the University of [California]
- (at) [Harvard, Oxford] University
- UK: go to university
- study [physics, computer engineering, law] at the university
- a major in [physics] at the university
- [visit, sound out, choose, apply to] a university
- the university [offers, awards] scholarships
- the university of life
- the [director, dean, secretary] of the university
- a [freshman, sophomore, junior, senior] at university
- UK: graduate from university with [honors, a degree, distinction]
- university [fees, exams, students]
- the university [secretary, board, management, funds]
- a university [graduate, degree, education, campus, scholarship]
- a university [league, team, coach]
'university' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Swedish
- accept
- acceptance
- admission
- admit
- apprenticeship
- archive
- athletic
- attend
- basic
- biology
- campus
- cash
- chair
- charter
- chemistry
- classmate
- clearing
- collateral
- college
- course
- curriculum
- dean
- deferred
- degree
- deny
- dig
- diploma
- discipline
- dismay
- dissertation
- don
- education
- electronic
- endowment
- enroll
- entrance
- examination
- extension
- faculty
- fee
- fellow
- flourish
- frank
- geography
- girl
- graduate
- graduation
- grant
- gym