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Europe

This category lists sites related to further and higher education only. Primary and secondary education sites are under their respective counties or regions at Regional/Europe/Education.

Submit your site using your main URL.
Use your site''s actual title.
Create a brief description, under 25 words, listing the current content of your site (not the future content).
Do not use first person verbiage (we, our, us).
Do not use marketing verbiage. (We''re the best!, Most awesome site, Check it Out!) Marketing verbiage will be removed by the editors.
Sites which are gateways or splash pages to affiliate sites will not be added.
All sites are reviewed periodically.
Sites in the directory are subject to changes in placement, description and possible removal from the directory, based on this review.

Academic Departments

No sites are listed in this category - instead it just hold links to subject-based categories for academic departments in the Europe.

No sites are listed at this level, so do not submit your site here. In general, sites for academic departments can be listed twice - once in a subject-orientated category, and once under the category for their parent institution.

Czech Republic

This category provides links to the Czech universities and colleges. Includes schools where study for foreigners is available.

Please submit only sites in English or with an English language version available. Czech language sites should be submitted to the appropriate category under World/Czech/.
If you are submitting a site available in multiple languages, please submit the URL of the English version of the main page.
Please make sure that site descriptions are free of hype and promotional language.

Estonia

This category lists sites related to further and higher education only. Primary and secondary education sites are under their respective counties or localities at Regional/Europe/Estonia/Education/.

This category lists sites related to further and higher education in Estonia.

Please submit your site to the most appropriate educational institution. This category lists sites related to further and higher education only. Primary and secondary education sites are under their respective counties or localities in Regional/Europe/Estonia or at Regional/Europe/Estonia/Education/.

Only submit sites which have an English section, submit sites which are entirely in Estonian to World/Eesti. If you are submitting a multilingual site, please submit the entry page URL and provide a language choice on the entry page.

The editor of this category may not be using the same operating system and or browser as you are, in fact it is very likely that he is not, so please ensure that your site works for other browsers and operating systems than your own before submitting here. If your site cannot be reviewed by the editor it cannot be added to the directory.

Notice: Multiple submissions, repeat submissions, submission of mirror sites and similar techniques, with the intention of ''forcing'' a higher placement on the directory are most unwelcome and unnecessary. Such behavior will almost certainly delay, if not completely prevent, your submission being listed. (See the ODP terms of service)

The ODP is a directory edited by human volunteers, all submissions are reviewed and edited fairly, but this can take some time.

Finland

These links will take you to English-language information on universities located in Finland - the Finnish educational system doesn't have an equivalent to "college". For Finnish citizens, study is free of charge; most of the schools offer interesting options for foreign students, as well.

France

Only sites with content in the English language will be accepted, this includes bilingual sites.

If your site is entirely in French please submit it instead to World: Français: Formation: Enseignement supérieur: Universités: France.

If your site is bilingual, please submit it to this category and World: Français: Formation: Enseignement supérieur: Universités: France.

Please submit your site to the appropriate subcategory, if one exists.

Germany

Colleges and Universities in Germany

Higher education institutions in Germany are mostly of the following types:

Universities (in German: sg. Universität, pl. Universitäten), offering degree courses of nominally four years' duration in most cases (actual duration of study varies). Universities also offer study for a doctorate after the first degree. Eligibility is by school graduation with Abitur, after 13 or 12 years of school according to state. Some universities are technical universities (abbreviated TU or in the case of Aachen TH)
Technical/business colleges (in German: sg. Fachhochschule, pl. Fachhochschulen, abbrev. FH). They have usually adopted "University of Applied Sciences" as their English-language designation but are not called universities in German. Their degree courses are usually of three years' nominal duration. In most cases they are not authorized to confer doctorates. Qualification for FH study is by achieving Fachhochschulreife at school, which takes about a year less than Abitur.
On nomenclature of the Fachhochschulen this category follows a resolution of the HRK (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz) in using the German name of the institution with the addition of "University of Applied Sciences"

There are also other types of universities and colleges, such as musical or theatrical colleges, civil service colleges, armed services universities, and, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Berufsakademien. When they are not called Universität or Fachhochschule they usually have ...hochschule as part of their name.

Must colleges and universities are supported by the federal state (Land) where they are situated but there are also private institutions of higher education.

The universities and colleges are to be found in the category of the German state where they are situated. If you do not know what state an institution is in please refer to the letter categories where they are cross-referenced by locality, English-language name and also German name (except where the German name ist just "Universität X" for an English name of "University of X").

If you can read German you find more comprehensive information in the German-language category World/Deutsch/Wissen/Bildung/Hochschulen/Europa/Deutschland.

Greece

For the listing of colleges and universities in Greece.

If your site is not specifically geared towards this topic, please submit to the proper category.

Submitting to the wrong category will delay and/or prevent your site from being listed in the directory.

Submission Tips:
When writing your site''s title please ensure it is the same as your organization.

When writing your site''s description, please tell what your site offers in a clear and concise statement without hype or promotional language.

Please also submit your site to the proper prefecture in Greece.
Thank-you for your cooperation.

Ireland

Each college and university resides in its own subcategory. Further subcategorisation may be done using the following template.

Colleges and Universities Official Template

Unless an official site is the only site in the main category for a school or in one of the subcats, it can be cooled.

Admissions - Includes information about and for prospective students. This category would also house all of the deep links about the university from informative sites such as www.review.com and US News and World Report.

Administration - Covers offices and support areas for colleges and universities, as well as general administrative offices.

Alumni - Includes resources specifically directed at alumni. A further category named "Regional" may be established for sites that cater to alumni in specific regions.

Athletics - The official university athletic site should be listed. @ links to school-sponsored athletics and sport teams which reside in Sports/College_and_University/ should be placed in the category. Unofficial sports clubs (i.e., teams that are NOT officially sanctioned by the athletic department) DO NOT belong in this cat. They should be moved to Student Organizations.

Departments and Programs - Subcats need to be created for all individual schools and colleges. The listings for each department should be found under the college or school it is affiliated with. If any college or school has pages for individual programs please create an individual Programs subcat (if this is confusing please see Reference/Education/Colleges_and_Universities/North_America/United_States/ New_Jersey/Princeton_University/Departments/ for an example). If a school has no such academic subdivisions, then all departmental listings should go directly under Departments and Programs, a separate Programs cat does need to be created though.

Libraries and Museums - Covers all campus libraries and museums from individual academic libraries and museums to main branches.

Organizations - Includes campus organizations and clubs - both student and otherwise. A Greek Life subcat should also be created (if necessary). All fraternities and sororities (if they exist) should be included in this category. Since many large institutions have more than 100 club sites it will be necessary to categorize them further. This can be accomplished in one of two ways:

Subdivide by the type of club (i.e Sports Clubs, A-Capella, Ethnic, etc.) This method is preferred.
Create an alphabar, and categorize the sites by the letter of their first name.

Publications and Media - Includes campus publications as well as news and/or media about the institution.

Research - Includes specific research efforts and/or studies. All Centers and Institutes should be placed in this cat.

Following these guidelines will allow us to add your site to the directory as quickly as possible.

Submit your site using your main URL.
Use your site''s actual title.
Create a brief description, under 25 words, listing the current content of your site (not the future content).
Do not use first person verbiage (we, our, us).
Do not use marketing verbiage. (We''re the best!, Most awesome site, Check it Out!) Marketing verbiage will be removed by the editors.
Sites which are gateways or splash pages to affiliate sites will not be added.
All sites are reviewed periodically.
Sites in the directory are subject to changes in placement, description and possible removal from the directory, based on this review.

Italy

Only submit your site to this category if it contains pages in the English language. If your site is in Italian, not English, please submit it instead to: World/Italiano/Istruzione_e_Formazione/Università

Romania

Pages in English language that include information dedicated to the universities from Romania.

If the page is not in the English language, this category is not suitable for submission.

If the page is in Romanian language, please review World/Românã/Educaþie/Universitãþi.

Submission Tips:

When writing your site''s title please ensure it is the same as your organization.

When writing your site''s description, please tell what your site offers in a clear and concise statement without hype or promotional language.

Thank-you for your cooperation.

Russia

This category contains home pages of Russian colleges and universities. Only home pages written in English are listed here. For Russian ones, visit the World: Russian : ... category listed in the "see also" section.

Spain

Only sites with content in the English language will be accepted, this includes bilingual sites.

If your site is entirely in Spanish please submit it instead to World: Español: Educación: Universidades: España.

If your site is bilingual, please submit it to this category and World: Español: Educación: Universidades: España.

Please submit your site to the appropriate subcategory, if one exists.

Sweden

Tertiary-level education in Sweden is provided at universities ("universitet") offering undergraduate as well as graduate programs, and university colleges ("högskolor") offering primarily undergraduate education. Almost all universities and colleges are operated by the state or by county councils (local governments).