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There were twenty-three British universities in 1960. After a period of (36) in the 1960s, there are now forty-eight, (37) the Open University and the Independent University of Buckingham. There are thirty-five in England, eight in Scotland, two in Northern Ireland, and one in Wales. They can be (38) into three types. The (39) universities of Oxford and Cambridge were set up in the twelfth century, but until the nineteenth century they were the only English universities and (40) no places for women. How ever, another four universities were (41) in Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth century. The second group of universities were (42) created between 1850 and 1930. The third group (43) of new universities founded after the Second World War, and later in the 1960s. Many of them were set in the countryside. (44) A very small number of students leave university without finishing their courses. (45) .Most students tend to live on campus, while others may rent houses outside the university. (46) . But financial costs are now changing these choices.