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The Research University

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Top-tier universities; Top-ranked universities

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Universities with a strong involvement in research, as shown by its outcomes (grants, publications, patents, PhDs, teaching).

In spite of the many differences between higher education systems throughout the world, the association between research and teaching has been central to the existence of most modern higher education institutions. In opposition to the so-called Napoleonic model which prevailed in Southern Europe, Humboldt forged at the beginning of the 1800s a doctrine which was implemented at the end of the nineteenth century in advanced northern European and emerging country of the time – the USA. It emphasized disciplinary comprehensiveness and academic freedom of research as a condition to sustain the education of free minds in universities. Both missions of research and training were thus considered as complementary and equally important.

Nevertheless, the concept of research university as a distinctive...

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  1. University Paris Est-LISIS, Paris, France

    Catherine Paradeise

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  1. Department of Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Jung Cheol Shin

  2. CIPES, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Teixeira

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Paradeise, C. (2016). The Research University. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_25-1

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