List of split up universities

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This is a list of universities which were split into more than one new institution. Over the history numerous higher education institutions were split up or some scholars left already established institutions and established new ones. Some of the oldest medieval universities were established when students or faculty moved en masse from one town to another. [1] Many of those splits were rampant, motivated by ideological, political or identity concerns. Among others, they include politically motivated mass breakup of French universities in the aftermath of protests of 1968 when in 1971 the total of fifteen universities was split up into 56 new ones [2] [3] [4] or linguistic and communitarian breakup of Belgian universities. [5]

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Following the split up, new institutions may either all be new independent legal entities, one may legally continue earlier institution in some capacity, or the rump institution may stay in place without seceded units. Some initiatives to split up universities were faced with protests or questions on the viability of new institutions. [6] [7]

Africa

Botswana

Libya

Madagascar

Mali

South Africa

Asia

Georgia

Laos

Sri Lanka

Europe

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

France

Germany

Ireland

Italy

Kosovo

United Kingdom

North America

United States

Oceania

New Zealand

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