College vs. University — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between College and University
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Definitions
College
A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school.
University
A university (Latin: universitas, 'a whole') is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
College
An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.
University
An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities typically including a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
College
An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field or group of fields.
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University
The buildings and grounds of such an institution.
College
A junior or community college.
University
The body of students and faculty of such an institution.
College
A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject
A medical college.
University
Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.
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College
The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions
New policies adopted by the college.
University
The universe; the whole.
College
The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located
Drove over to the college.
University
An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others.
College
Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.
University
An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty
The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.
College
An institution for secondary education in France and certain other countries that is not supported by the state.
University
The body of faculty and students at a university
College
A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties
A college of surgeons.
University
Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
College
An electoral college.
University
A large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
College
A body of clerics living together on an endowment.
College
(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
College
(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons
College
(politics) An electoral college.
College
An academic institution.
College
A specialized division of a university.
College of Engineering
College
An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
She's still in college
These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
College
A university.
College
(Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
College
A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Balliol College, Oxford
University College, London
College
(UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
College
(UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
College
A high school or secondary school.
Eton College
College
(Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.
College
(Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
College
(Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.
College
(in Chile) A bilingual school.
College
A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
The college of the cardinals.
Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this.
College
A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
College
A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
College
Fig.: A community.
Thick as the college of the bees in May.
College
The body of faculty and students of a college
College
An institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
College
British slang for prison
College
A complex of buildings in which a college is housed