Ch. 1. Themes / Walter Ruegg
Ch. 2. Patterns / Christophe Charle
Ch. 3. Relations with authority / Paul Gerbod
Ch. 4. Resources and management / Paul Gerbod
Ch. 5. Teachers / Matti Klinge
Ch. 6. diffusion of European models outside Europe / Edward Shils and John Roberts
Ch. 7. Admission / Fritz Ringer
Ch. 8. Student movements / Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos
Ch. 9. Graduation and careers / Konrad H. Jarausch
Ch. 10. Theology and the arts / Walter Ruegg
Ch. 11. History and the social sciences / Asa Briggs
Ch. 12. mathematical and the exact sciences / Paul Bockstaele
Ch. 13. Biology and the earth sciences / Anto Leikola
Ch. 14. Medicine / Antonie M. Luyendijk-Elshout
Ch. 15. Technology / Anna Guagnini
Epilogue : universities and war in the twentieth century / Notker Hammerstein
European universities and similar institutions in existence between 1812 and the end of 1944 : a chronological list / Walter Ruegg
Alphabetical list of towns with important institutions of higher learning.
