Virtual university

A virtual university is a university where there is a rather small core of physical organisation and people carrying out face-to-face teaching, and a rather large amount of distance teaching, usually nowadays carried out with a significant amount of online learning.

There is not an absolute distinction between face-to-face universities and distance teaching universities - many so-called distance teaching universities in fact use blended learning for their offerings, often via a network of tutorial centres.

In essence, a virtual university is a university where the virtual campus is or has become dominant over the physical campus.