The most comprehensive reference tool available in the field of higher education, the World Higher Education Database 2009 encorporates the IAU database in a cross-referenced, fully searchable CD-ROM, and includes additional material such as profiles of higher education in each country. Over 14,000 universities in more than 180 countries.

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The INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES (IAU), founded in 1950, is a worldwide organization, with Member Institutions in some 150 countries, which co-operates with a vast network of international, regional and national bodies. Its permanent Secretariat, the International Universities Bureau, is located at UNESCO, Paris, and provides a wide variety of services to Member Institutions and to the international higher education community at large.