| Noun | 1. | Open University - a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school university - a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom |