Universities (colleges) are a kind of schools that implement higher education, including comprehensive universities, specialized universities and colleges. 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.

Origin:

Modern universities directly originated from European medieval universities in 12 and 13 centuries. Ancient Egypt, India and China were the cradles of higher education, and ancient Greece, Rome, Byzantium and Arab countries all established relatively perfect and developed higher education systems. Although many educational historians also call these local institutions of higher learning universities, strictly speaking, they are not real universities.

1088, Italy established the first regular university, the University of Bologna, which is the most famous Roman law research center in Europe (also known as the "parent university"). Subsequently, universities appeared all over Europe.

The University of Paris evolved from the school affiliated to Notre Dame de Paris. 1200, the king of France recognized that scholars of Paris University have the legal qualifications of priests and enjoy judicial immunity (Paris University is the second university and a gentlemen's university).