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Universitas 21 is an international network of 20 leading research-intensive universities in eleven countries. Collectively, its members enroll about 500,000 students, employ around 40,000 academics and researchers and have over two million alumni. Its purpose is to facilitate collaboration and cooperation between the member universities and to create entrepreneurial opportunities for them on a scale that none of them would be able to achieve operating independently or through traditional bilateral alliances.
The University of Virginia has been a member of the Universitas 21 consortium since May 2001. U.Va. has implemented bi-lateral student exchange agreements with most of the U21 member institutions. The University is also active in numerous other network initiatives including the wholly online degree-granting enterprise, U21Global. |
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| Established in 1997, Universitas 21 engages in a number of activities on three different levels: |
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The first level encourages traditional collegial activities such as student exchange programs. |
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The second level facilitates greater international collaboration between members, such as the sharing of learning materials. |
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The third level focuses on opportunities for entrepreneurial activities. An example of this is U21Global (an online university created in partnership with Thomson Learning). |
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| All Universitas 21 member institutions are research-led, comprehensive universities providing a strong quality assurance framework to the network's activities. |
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