What's the difference between a college and a university?

Question

The words seem to be interchangable

Answer 1

A college just offers a collection of degrees and a university is a collection of colleges. When you go to a university you are going to be graduating from one of their colleges, such as the business college.

Answer 2

The definition of the word depends on where you live. In Canada, a "college" is what the Americans call a "community college", a school offering training in more hands-on jobs. It's odd, however, because there are still the kinds of colleges which exist within a university. It's all semantics.

Answer 3

A college is a 4 year institution. A university "normally" or "traditionally" is a 4 year institution plus it offers advanced degrees- Masters and PhDs. Some colleges are liberal arts. (they offer degrees in the traditional areas: English, History, etc. They also offer business degrees, too.)

You are right,they are used interchangeably. They are both institutes of higher education.

And, from my experience- both colleges and universities are expensive.

Answer 4

Sorry, but i think gau_rah should get a better grasp on the english language before he goes around calling people stupid in english. Anyway

University: An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees

College: An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.
2 An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field

Answer 5

A University is a collection of colleges all located together... a college is NOT a collection of Universities.

Answer 6

college is not a private place of education. Most universities are private and very costly. Colleges on the hand like fullerton college are not as expensive and not private.

I go to a University and it's expensive. My nephew goes to a college and its affordable.

Answer 7

Captmhunt and Voxtar are correct but only for the definitions in American English. "College" versus university is defined somewhat differently in Canadian and King's (British) English.

Answer 8

are you mad just buzz off.ok ok i tell you
colleage mean where aparticular couse happening .it can be driving colleage ,military colleage etc

univercity mean where all type of studies happening in uni... teachers can read for students .univercity mean different types of couses in same ground .colleage is sub part of uni....stupid