A university: According to The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (7[SUP]th[/SUP] Ed) is an institution at the highest level of education where you can study for a degree or do a research. Mwl. J. K. Nyerere defined university as "an institution of higher learning; a place where people's minds are trained for clear thinking, for independent thinking, for analysis, and for problem solving at the highest level.
According to J. K. Nyerere, a university has three major important social functions. From one generation to the next it transmits advanced knowledge, so that this can serve either as a basis of action, or as a spring-board for further research. Second, a university provides a centre for the attempt to advance the frontiers of knowledge; it does this by concentrating in one place some of the most intellectually able people who are not pre occupied by day-to-day administrative or professional responsibilities, and through its possession of good library and laboratory facilities. And third, a university provides, through its teaching, for the high-level manpower needs of the society"
Endapo chuo kinaitwa 'chuo kikuu' ni sharti kiyafanye hayo hapo juu. kuitwa college na kikatoa digree, ni lazima chuo hicho kimekuwa affiliated na chuo kikuu fulani. eg. chuo kikuu kishiriki cha duce, mkwawa, tumaini dsm, nk.