Imperial University may refer to:
- Imperial University (Université Impériale) or University of France, the French university re-organisation initiated by Napoleon.
- The National Seven Universities (全国七大学, zenkoku shichidaigaku?) of Japan, originally founded as Imperial Universities before World War II
- Keijō Imperial University, founded under Japanese rule, now part of the University of Seoul, Korea
- National Taiwan University, founded under Japanese rule as "Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University"
- Imperial University of Vilna; now Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Imperial University of Warsaw; now University of Warsaw, Poland
- Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or university:
“All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)