The university opened in September 1871 in rented space downtown.

In 1970, the François-Rabelais university was founded ; this is centred on the bank of the Loire in the downtown area, and not – as it was then the current practice – in a campus in the suburbs.

* The Tulsa Law School, located in downtown Tulsa, became part of the university in 1943.

Prior to the events, the university received a facelift that included extensive renovations to the Rice – Eccles Stadium, a light rail track leading to downtown Salt Lake City, a new student center known as the Heritage Center, an array of new student housing, and a 134-room campus hotel and conference center.

It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria.

In 1901 the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba changed the University Act so that the university could do its own teaching, and in 1905 a building in downtown Winnipeg became its first teaching facility with a staff of six science professors.

The university has two campuses, set approximately 7 km apart: Sir George Williams Campus in the downtown core of Montreal, in an area known as Quartier Concordia ( at Guy-Concordia Metro station ), and Loyola Campus in the residential west-end district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

While the bike-lane network is being upgraded, the scheme aims to serve a large portion of the population, university students and tourist groups in their movement to and from downtown.

Frankfort is the home of the Kentucky State University, a historically black university situated near the downtown area.

Saint Mary's College of California is located just northeast of downtown Moraga ; it is a Catholic university with 3, 962 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the 2007 – 2008 school year.

Oak Park's enviable location as one of the closest suburbs to downtown Chicago, the availability of multiple modes of high-speed transportation to downtown Chicago, and its location between the Loyola Medical Center to the west and the University of Illinois at Chicago and multiple medical centers to the east attract university, legal, and health-care professionals to its aging housing stock.

It operates between downtown, the university, shopping centers and the city's northern neighborhoods.

Queen's Campus is rather self-contained but is in close walking distance to downtown Kingston, making it a pedestrian friendly university for students and faculty alike.

Founded in 1901, Golden Gate University ( informally referred to as GGU, or simply as Golden Gate ) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in the Financial District of downtown San Francisco, California.

The university is the cultural center of the city even though a small two-block downtown is located directly to the north of the campus.

In the same year, the university moved to its present-day uptown campus on historic St. Charles Avenue, five miles by streetcar from downtown New Orleans.

Loyola Law School did not move with the rest of the university, but moved later to another location just west of downtown Los Angeles.

The university is approximately five miles ( 8 km ) east of downtown Cleveland in University Circle.

The university is approximately five miles ( eight km ) east of downtown Cleveland, adjacent to the historic Wade Park District in University Circle, a city neighborhood and commercial center, home to numerous educational, medical, and other cultural institutions.

The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is located north of downtown Winston-Salem, after the university moved there in 1956.

Providence College ( also known as Providence or " PC ") is a private, coeducational, Roman Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city.

The university comprises four campuses in Edmonton, the Augustana Campus in Camrose, and a staff centre in downtown Calgary.

To strengthen the relationship between the village and the university, and to add to the economic development of downtown, Colgate relocated its campus bookstore to the downtown area of the village. Colgate's Bookstore, downtown Colgate also owns and operates, downtown, the Palace Theater, a 300-seat performing arts center, and the Barge Canal Cafe, a coffee shop and performing venue for local and student performers.

A Catholic priest recently recounted how in the chapel of a large city university, following Anglican evensong, at which there was a congregation of twelve, he celebrated Mass before more than a hundred.

* Web site of the Board of a large U. S. university, illustrating a typical board's composition, duties, concerns, etc.

The university has a large network of more than 1, 600 corporate, governmental, and non-profit partners in 28 states and 25 international locations.

Marine research at Dalhousie has become a large focus of the university, with many of the university's faculty members involved in some form of marine research.

Together the Claremont Colleges provide the resources and opportunities of a large university while enabling the specialization and personal attention afforded by the individual colleges.

A large university library may be considered a research library ; and in North America they may belong to the Association of Research Libraries.

The university traditionally centers on the Lundagård park adjacent to the Lund Cathedral, with various departments spread in different locations in town, but mostly concentrated in a belt stretching north from the park connecting to the university hospital area and continuing out to the northeastern periphery of the town, where one finds the large campus of the Faculty of Engineering.

The university's prominence and large student population have much impact on the city, effectively making it a university town.

MIT is a large, highly residential, research university with a majority of enrollments in graduate and professional programs.

The university is currently undertaking a large infrastructure and capital works program that will see an investment of over $ 1 billion into new buildings and projects across the campus and has set up an Office of Major Projects to oversee the new developments.

Much of the city's cultural life has revolved around its large university community.

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

Stanford University is a large, highly residential research university with a majority of enrollments coming from graduate and professional students.

Recently, the university has experienced a large increase in on-campus housing, student enrollment, new facilities, and the establishment of both the Wegmans School of Nursing, and The Wegmans School of Pharmacy.

Since 1928 Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan has held an annual Winter Carnival in mid-February, during which a large Snow Sculpture Contest takes place between various clubs, fraternities, and organizations in the community and the university.

Even the name is inspired by Eiffel ; the Sather Tower is a recognizable landmark at Berkeley, named after Peder Sather who donated large sums to the foundation of the university.

However, as a young carpenter working in Syracuse, Cornell had been twice robbed of his wages, and thereafter considered Syracuse a Sodom and Gomorrah insisting that the university be located in Ithaca on his large farm on East Hill, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake.

From 1900 to 1920 the university constructed many new facilities, including buildings for the dental and pharmacy programs, chemistry, natural sciences, Hill Auditorium, large hospital and library complexes, and two residence halls.

The university also operates a large office building called Wolverine Tower in southern Ann Arbor near Briarwood Mall.

North Campus is the most contiguous campus, built independently from the city on a large plot of farm land — approximately — that the university bought in 1952.

The university rose to pronounced significance during the rise of Sweden as a great power at the end of the 16th century and was then given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century.

When large parts of Uppsala burned down in 1702, Gustavianum, which contained the university library and its many valuable manuscripts, escaped the fire ; local lore has it that the aging Rudbeck stood on the roof directing the work of fighting the fire.

Another magnificent royal donation was that of the large baroque garden of the castle, given by Gustavus III to the university when it was obvious that the old botanical garden was insufficient.

The University of California's campuses boast large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every field and it is widely regarded as one of the top public university systems in the world.