open university

1. 1.

   a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school

   Broaderuniversity

   United Kingdom

Questions about open university

What does open university mean?

open university means "a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school".

Is open university a common word?

open university is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.