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Universitas 21
Universitas 21 (U21) is an international network of 21 leading research-intensive universities in thirteen countries. Collectively, its members enrol over 650,000 students, employ over 130,000 staff and have over 2 million alumni. Their collective budgets amount to over US$13bn and they jointly have an annual research grant income of over US$3bn.
The purpose of Universitas 21 is to facilitate collaboration and cooperation between the member universities and to create opportunities for them on a scale that none of them would be able to achieve operating independently or through traditional bilateral alliances.
Established in 1997, Universitas 21 engages in a number of activities, informed by core underlying principles:
- a global focus and perspective
- a commitment to excellence in all we do
- a commitment of those involved to collaborative and co-operative work and spirit while ensuring there are clear outcomes
- a determination to achieve added value
- a constant striving for innovation and the creation of multilateral opportunities for members
- sustainability of activity
All Universitas 21 member institutions are research-led, comprehensive universities providing a strong quality assurance framework to the network's activities.
Members
- University of Auckland, New Zealand
- University of Birmingham, UK
- University of British Columbia, Canada **
- Delhi University, India
- University College Dublin, Ireland
- University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Fudan University, China
- University of Glasgow, Scotland
- University of Hong Kong **
- Korea University
- Lund University, Sweden **
- University of Melbourne, Australia *
- McGill University, Canada
- Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico **
- University of New South Wales, Australia *
- University of Nottingham, England
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- University of Queensland, Australia *
- National University of Singapore
- University of Virginia, United States *
- Waseda University, Japan
The ones marked with stars are most likely to quality as a Virtual Campus, with those with ** more likely than those with just *
Follow-up
See the star ratings above.
Since U21 institutions are similar in rank to the Coimbra Group, it would be politically convenient if one or two of them could be taken as exemplars. --Pbacsich 19:08, 7 February 2008 (CET)
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