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What's the difference between "College" and "University"? (feddit.cl)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Until recently I assume they were synonymous 😅, Here you go to Uni immediatly after finishing HS.

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[–] GlyphOfAdBlocking@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In the US, a university offers at least 1 Master or higher degree in some field. A college's highest degree is an Associate (community college) or Bachelor.

A university will refer to it's smaller degree areas as College such as College of Educational, College of Business. This is to differentiate them from administrative departments. In the same vain, college's will have schools of education or business, ect.

In the UK (by what my Brit friends have taught me) college is more like US high school, and university is the education after that (the post secondary education). My friend's child would be in US high school, but is attending college in England.

[–] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're sort of right about the UK, colleges are usually institutions that offer higher education, usually to 17-18 year olds, but are not a school. But there are colleges that offer to lower ages and to higher ages, but not offering degrees. College is like a catch all term for non school/university based education

[–] GlyphOfAdBlocking@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Sort of like pudding be a catch all for food 😁

[–] moobythegoldensock@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The footnote for that is that some schools have “college” in their names due to name recognition, even though they are functionally universities.

For example, Boston College is actually a university, and is considered more prestigious than Boston University.