I’ve been searching for university names database, but i didn’t find complete database that covers at least universities in 240 countries. I decide to crawl university names in LinkedIn and Webometric, since both give university names based on country code. If you are in hurry to get university names database, you can download them here. If you are interested to know how to crawl the LinkedIn and Webometric university names data and build the database, then hang on with me.

I used Python to crawl LinkedIn and Webometric. It was accidental, when i edit my profile on my LinkedIn, firebug shows ajax get request to populate university names on select element. So here is my python code to get LinkedIn university names based on country code:
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