Until recently I assume they were synonymous 😅, Here you go to Uni immediatly after finishing HS.
I’m the US there are 3 that I can think of:
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They are synonymous in the general sense. “Yeah, I graduated from college.”
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Specifically a 2-year school, but usually this will be community College or something similar.
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Sub organizations in a large university
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In New Zealand a university is a form of higher/tertiary education institution.
A college is a high school that’s trying to sound fancy.
The kind of place that the US calls “community college” would be called a “polytech” here.
Not sure where you live, but here in Costa Rica, college is the equivalent to High School.
Source: I am from Costa Rica and I’m on my 10th year (4th year on high school)
chile, HS isn’t even that much of a real thing here, here is 8 years of basic education, 4 years of “middle education”, (wich more times than not is´t thaaat different to basic education, but kinda is HS) and then University/trade school/army/carab. academy/directly to work
In the US, universities have a significant number of graduate degrees along with undergraduate degrees while colleges offer (almost) exclusively undergraduate degrees. My alma mater became a university shortly before I started because they started offering enough graduate degrees.
In the US, they’re the same. In most countries, a university is a collection of colleges (although most people don’t know that).
In countries where universities and colleges are considered separate entities (i.e. most countries), universities are still considered more prestigious, although it’s much easier to get a BS/no job degree from an university than a college
Sort of. There are colleges within university in the US too, we just don’t usually talk about it
A university is a typically a collection of colleges (or schools).
For example: Harvard University is made up of Harvard College, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, etc.
For all intents and purposes - we use the word “college” and “university” interchangeably because they’re the same level of education. Either can do associates through doctoral.
Community colleges, however, only focus on 2 year degrees and certain certifications.
One is more pretentious than the other and costs more money. 🙃
yeah, but what’s the difference???
That is the difference.
University is where Great Thinkers go to become egg heads and where rich kids go to pretend they’re Great Thinkers.
College is where kids go to learn how to weld and program and change bed pans.
and program
just you wait until you learn that people learn to program at university too
They learn the history of computer science and read books about the fundamental principles of programming like SICP and the underlying mathematics and bla bla bla egg head shit
In college you get squirted out with just enough knowledge to get a job.
having taken multiple university-level programming classes, i have learned literally how to program. Yes they learn all that other stuff, but it just sounds to me like you don’t really know what you’re talking about and are trying to justify a sarcastic response with serious “knowledge”
Yes they learn all that other stuff,
Did I, at any point, say you don’t know how to program? You and a college graduate can probably program at the same proficiency, but while the college graduate is just there to get a job you demand some kind of respect for your fancy degree, like that shit matters.
You seem like a very rude and sad individual
