what is the difference between graduate school and college in USA?

Answer 1

College is where you get a Bachelor's degree, graduate school is where you get a Master's degree or ph. D

Answer 2

College is where one goes to get a higher education after highschool to get a degree such as a Bachelor of Arts or Science or Buisness or the lower levels of Associate Degrees.
Grad school is the next level up, getting an even higher degree of a 'Masters' in the field of study. One must succesfully complete college before moving on to Graduate School.

Answer 3

College, or undergraduate work, is geared mored towards a general knowledge. For instance, if one is a liberal arts or humanities major, you would take many classes about history, literature, arts, languages, and in general social sciences, as well as a set number of math and hard science courses, in order to develope and round out your knowledge base. We have majors in undergraduate - so more classes geared towards that subject, but still, there are a lot of general education classes.
-There are exceptions, such as vocational/technical colleges, but usually general language, grammar, writing and history classes are still required.

Graduate school is more focused, meaning you do not have to take classes outside of your discipline, either your major or minor [if applicable] interest.

From what I know of the general european school system, it would be possibl to equate an undergraduate degree with an academic, gymnasium/lycee degree and a Masters with a european university degree.
This is because, all students in the US go through roughly the same high school curriculum [of course, some schools are more rigorous than others], so the decision of college verses technical/vocational school is made later, around the age of 18, instead of much earlier, as seems to be the case throughout most of Europe.

Answer 4

College = basic bachelor's degree for undergraduates, usually doesn't offer graduate programs
University = offers both undergraduate and graduate programs
Graduate school = graduate degrees such as professional degrees in law, business, medicine; or research programs toward PhD

Answer 5

College is where you go for a basic bachelor's degree. Graduate school is Post-graduate education where you get your Master's and PhD's

Answer 6

College is where you get your basic degree. It is generally 4 years, and generally it will prepare you in some liberal arts education or some electives that are not generally related to your degree but will give you a larger base of education. When you go for your masters, you are going for specific courses to your degree, and generally classes are very long and can lead to more money in your field.

Answer 7

Here is a good article that explains this in more detail: http://www.macquil.com/articles/study_in_the_usa.php

Answer 8

In college you get a better education that graduate school. I am planning to go to Duke!!! THEY ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!