An educational institution is a place where people of different ages gain an education, including preschools, childcare, primary-elementary schools, secondary-high schools, and universities. They provide a large variety of learning environments and learning spaces.
Types of educational institution
Types of educational institution include:
Early childhood
- Preschool
- Kindergarten
- Nursery
Primary
- Elementary school (grade school), primary school
- Middle school (partly)
- Comprehensive school
Secondary
- Secondary school
- Comprehensive school
- High school
- Middle school (partly)
- Upper school
- Independent school (UK)
- Academy (English school)
- University-preparatory school
- Boarding school
- Gymnasium
- Hauptschule
- Realschule
Further and higher education
- Academy
- College
- Career college
- Community college
- Junior college
- Liberal arts college
- Madrasah
- Residential college
- Sixth form college
- Technical college or Institute of Technology
- University college
- Graduate school
- Institute of technology (Polytechnic)
- University
- Corporate university
- International university
- Local university
- Jamiah
- Medieval university
- Nizamiyya
- Private university
- Public university
- Yeshiva
- Seminary