Question: Southern Illinois University is a public research university located in Carbondale Illinois United States. Founded in 1869 SIU is the flagship campus of the Southern Illinois University system. (The other members are Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine.) The university is known as SIU Carbondale but colloquially as SIU. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Educational Institution