Everybody knows that these type of backlinks from .edu, .org and .gov domains carry a lot of weight in the eyes of google especially backlinks on real high page rank not mention to the root domain.
They are both dofollow and nofollow with high obl, but because of the .EDU .ORG and .GOV factor they do hold value in SEO as link and keyword diversity important past penguin update.
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