Autonomous university

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Autonomous university typically refers to a university that exercises a high degree of autonomy from the state.^{[1][better source needed][2]} The main dimensions of university autonomy are academic, organizational, financial and staffing autonomy.^[1]

The 1988 Magna Charta Universitatum defines the first fundamental principle of a university to be an "autonomous institution" whose "research and teaching must be morally and intellectually independent of all political authority and economic power".^[3] Different countries have their own implementation of university autonomy.^[4]