Timeline for Difference between "college" and "university"
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| Apr 2, 2017 at 20:35 | answer | added | user228365 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 20:15 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 19, 2014 at 20:09 | comment | added | Elliott Frisch | @choster Further complicating things. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 20:06 | comment | added | choster | I partially answer in “In college” versus “at college” versus “at university”, but ultimately, there is too much variation to answer definitively on this site. In the U.S., to be enrolled in undergraduate education is to be in college (college basketball, college girls, college libraries, etc.), but nothing can be inferred about the type of institution simply because it has "College" in the name— it could be a junior college, community college, liberal arts college— or it could in fact be a university, or it could be a high school. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:57 | answer | added | Terry N | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:53 | comment | added | WS2 | Subdivision of UK universities into colleges is variously done. At Oxford and Cambridge the colleges were (and to a large extent still are) residential. So if you are in, let's say, Trinity, reading maths you will live close to, dine with and to some extent socialise with students of law, economics, history and a wide range of arts and science courses. At London the colleges are more closely identified by discipline, Imperial - science & engineering; LSE - economics and political science; Kings - humanities and law; Goldsmiths - music and fine art; University - medicine and much else etc. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:34 | answer | added | user2310967less | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:25 | comment | added | ryanwinchester | I think the usage is regional. In Canada, generally-speaking -- Colleges are where you earn diplomas or certificates and Universities are where you go to earn degrees. Most college programs are around 2 years long while universities start with 4-year bachelor degrees. However, the US seems to use the terms interchangeably. | |
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:17 | answer | added | Sharon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:07 | comment | added | Canis Lupus | General reference. Google "college vs. university". See here, for example. | |
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:54 | comment | added | Elliott Frisch | Did you try wikipedia? | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:52 | comment | added | rahul | In the US,they can often mean the same thing.However,college has a few other meanings.It may also mean a place for education which students attend at the age of 16.Also,college may mean one of the separate and named parts into which a university is divided.Example-King's College,Cambridge.It means a few other things as well.Source-Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:35 | history | asked | user38611 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |