Can you attend a college & then move to its University??

Question

The question might be stupid to some of you but I am from Italy so over there our schooling system is different, anyways also what are some mayor differences b/w both of them??
Can credits from one University be transfer to a completely different University??
Any other information will be appreciated!!

Answer 1

Yes you can switch from one University to another. But, you have to make sure that it is a transferable credit (Most are). allot of time's, smaller universities have classes that do not meet standards to larger, more prominent Universities.
Such as... Transferring from Alabama southern baptist, to Auburn University, or Alabama University.
If you attend a Community College, and then transfer to a state University, than you should be fine. Just make sure that you ASK your counselor to make sure that the credits you obtain in your classes will count toward the University that you ultimately plan on attending later on.
I hope this answers your question.

Answer 2

In America a University and a College are about the same thing. Other places I know have Colleges that are pieces of a University (Like at Oxford or Cambridge in England).
In those cases, you are already attending the University, the College is just a way of making the class sizes smaller.

Most Universities will accept credits from another University if you decide to transfer schools. I would check with the Universities though, because some of them won't accept certain credits that you may have earned.

Answer 3

Part of your confusion, Andrea, may be that in the U.S. we tend to use the word "college" in several different ways. First of all, it is often used as an overall term for all higher education, so someone who is a student at Harvard or MIT may say that they are in "college", even though the institutions where they are studying are clearly universities.

Next, the term "college" is used to describe institutions of higher education which are limited to a basic four year degree or less (although some of those also now offer a small number of graduate programs). Among these are the "community colleges", which are two-year schools, usually combining traditional trade school programs with the first two years of university study, called an associates degree. Many people who get an associates degree plan to transfer to a four-year college or a university after getting this degree. The advantages are that it is often less expensive than going to a four-year college or university, and that most community colleges will accept anyone who graduates from high school, so that students who did poorly in high school have another opportunity to get into the university if they do well in their community colleges.

Finally, individual groupings of subject matters within a university (which are called "Faculties" in Canada) are often called Colleges, so that one might be a student in the College of Arts & Sciences within a particular university. In this case, you are admitted to the university rather than to the particular College (although in rare instances both may be necessary), so you cannot get admitted ONLY to the College and transfer to the university.

Answer 4

The others have given good answers. In Canada depending on the province of study and the course you are taking there are colleges you grant diplomas in a particular course that will lead to the ability to transfer that diploma into its affiliated University and you can continue your study for the degree program. A good example is nursing.