I know this differs greatly, I just have an idea in my head and want to entertain is by knowing the numbers. I am in the UK but having some numbers for anywhere would be a good start.
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A university might be a building, or a gathering of students, or a legal fiction created by the government, or a group of people acting according to an academic tradition.
I know of a bible research institute that bought a Catholic college for less than a million US dollars. But the institute had existed for over thirty years; it was not a start-up.