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CWUR World University Ranking is one of the world university rankings published by the World University Ranking Center (CWUR).
The ranking was originally a project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, aiming at ranking 65,438+000 top universities in the world. Since 20 16, the headquarters of CWUR is located in the United Arab Emirates.
Universities (colleges) are a kind of schools that implement higher education, including comprehensive universities, colleges and universities. It is an organization with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions.
It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also a unique culture gradually formed on the basis of long-term school-running practice through historical accumulation, self-efforts and external environmental influence.
Universities have a history of thousands of years. At first, it mainly developed from Germany, Britain and other countries. Modern universities in China originated in the west, and western modern universities gradually evolved from European medieval universities, British universities, German universities, and then American universities. No matter what era the university is, it is a creative inheritance rather than a denial of previous universities.
The word "university" comes from the Latin Universitas Magistorum et scholium, which roughly means "the community of teachers and scholars". The modern university system has always been in the University of Eugen in the Middle Ages, which was established and evolved from the cathedral school in Italy in the Middle Ages.
According to the list of national colleges and universities released by the Ministry of Education on September 30th, 20021,there are 30 12 colleges and universities in China, including 2756 colleges and universities (undergraduate 1.270, junior college 1.486) and 256 adult colleges and universities.