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A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education.
In Europe young men proceeded to the university when they had completed the study of the trivium: the preparatory arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic and the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
In the United Kingdom, a University is instituted by Royal Charter and only institutions with such a charter can award degrees of any kind.
See also: List of colleges and universities, School and university in literature
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