Some remarks on the question of "elite universities" with regard to universities in Austria / Walter Höflechner -- Which elite? Whose university? : Britain's civic university tradition and the importance of place / William Whyte -- Universities in the Netherlands / Leen Dorsman -- Keeping up with the elite : noblemen at German universities (15.-16. century) with a special regard to Freiburg im Breisgau / Rainer Christoph Schwinges -- Legal education as a channel to the social elite / Pia Letto-Vanamo -- 'What for--what ultimately for?' : liberal arts and elite universities in the United States / Helle Porsdam -- Inaugural addresses of Prague University rectors between science and providing service to society, nation, and state in the first half of the 20th century / Petr Svobodný -- Academic centralization in Romania until World War II : forging an elite university in the capital city of Bucharest and the reactions of the competing University of Iasi / Leonidas Rados -- The failure of the elite university in early modern France / Boris Noguès -- Mass universities and the idea of an elite education in the Netherlands, 1945-2015 / Peter Jan Knegtmans -- What is required to create elite universities? / Flemming Resenbacher and Peter Thostrup.