The Province of Alberta allowed Concordia College to operate as a private degree-granting university in the 1987.

The oldest degree-granting university in Egypt after the Cairo University, its establishment date may be considered 1961 when non-religious subjects were added to its curriculum.

The school was founded in 1969, making it the oldest American degree-granting university in Rome.

The University of New Zealand was New Zealand's sole degree-granting university from 1874 to 1961.

In 1999, the University of Kansas became the degree-granting university for CUIS.

It is also one of the two doctoral degree-granting public universities and the second largest university in Wisconsin.

From that point forward, the institution became a full degree-granting university.

As Prager University is not an accredited degree-granting university, its name has been criticized as misleading.

In September 1995, Royal Roads University was opened as a public, degree-granting university.

It is the oldest degree-granting university in Egypt.