Educational institution
An educational institution is a place where people of different ages gain an education, including preschools, childcare, primary-elementary schools, secondary-high schools, and universities. They provide a large variety of learning environments and learning spaces.[1][2]
Types of educational institution[edit]
Types of educational institution include:
Early childhood[edit]
Primary[edit]
- Elementary school (grade school), primary school
- Middle school (partly)
- Comprehensive school
Secondary[edit]
- Secondary school
- Comprehensive school
- High school
- Middle school (partly)
- Upper school
- Independent school (UK)
- Academy (English school)
- University-preparatory school
- Boarding school
- Gymnasium
- Hauptschule
- Realschule
Further and higher education[edit]
- Academy
- College
- Career college
- Community college
- Junior college
- Liberal arts college
- Madrasah
- Residential college
- Sixth form college
- Technical college or Institute of Technology
- University college
- Graduate school
- Institute of technology (Polytechnic)
- University
- Corporate university
- International university
- Local university
- Jamiah
- Medieval university
- Nizamiyya
- Private university
- Public university
- Yeshiva
- Seminary
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "educational institution - Dictionary Definition". Vocabulary.com. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "educational institution". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
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