What's the difference between college and university?

Question

I am Greek, the system 's different here, but I 'm interested in going abroad; so I'd like to know, what's the difference? Is university better than college?

Answer 1

a university can give a Master's (6yrs) Degree. All instructors in post-graduate university courses must have PhD's. A college gives a Bachelor's(4 yrs) degree and all instructors must have a Master's degree minimum.

Answer 2

A college only grants undergraduate (Bachelors) degrees. A university offers post-graduate work and grants Masters and Doctorate degrees. A college, though, can be part of a university, for example, Harvard College is the undergraduate school at Harvard University.

Answer 3

British usage of the word "college" remains the loosest, encompassing a range of institutions:
Colleges of further education and adult education.
"Sixth form colleges", where students do A Levels, and some specialist schools
The constituent parts of collegiate universities, especially referring to the independent colleges of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham.
A name given to large groupings of faculties or departments, notably in the university of Edinburgh, and possibly the university of Birmingham under restructuring plans.
University colleges — independent higher education institutions that have been granted degree-awarding powers but not university status.
Certain private schools (also known as "Public" schools in England) for children such as Eton and Winchester.[1]
Professional associations such as the Royal College of Organists, the Royal College of Surgeons and other various Royal Colleges.
The College of Justice or Court of Session of Scotland

In general use, a "college" refers to: institutions between secondary school and university, colleges of further education and adult education. These types of institutions were usually referred to as technical colleges, or tech for short. Recently in the United Kingdom however, with the differences in functionality between universities and colleges becoming less clear-cut, and with the phasing out of polytechnical colleges, many people are starting to refer to them simply as "college". Many types of institutions have "college" in its name but are not "colleges" in the general use of the word. For example Eton College would not be referred to as a college, but as a school or by its full name.[1]
In American English, the word, in contrast to its many and varied British meanings, almost always refers to undergraduate university studies or to a school providing professional or technical training on a (loosely) comparable level. It can therefore refer to both a self-contained institution that has no graduate studies and to the undergraduate school of a full university (i.e. that also has a graduate school). The usual practice in the United States today is to use "university" in the official names of institutions made up of several faculties or "schools" and granting a range of higher degrees while "college" is used in the official names of smaller institutions only granting bachelor's or associate's degrees.

Answer 4

A university is typically larger than a college. Sometimes a university is made up of a couple colleges (School of Business, School of Pharmacy, etc.). To teach at a university the professors must have a PhD. A masters degree is required to teach at a college.