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[Arunas]

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Hi, I just find out these forums after i decided i want to study outside my country. And i see this coledge thing. What exactly is coledge? Here where I live, you finish school, take exams and with the results you get you apply for university. Now i see that after you finish school most peps. go to coledge and with the results FROM coledge they go to University.

Could someone explain me this ? What exactly do you do at colledge? What do you need when you apply there? Don't realy get this pre-university thing


Thanks

 

[tennisball80]

4 year college=4 year university

2 year community college=teachers you the first two year of 4 year college or 4 year university.

Note:In the U.S., the term "college" and "university" are used interchangeably.

 

[Sed8&Intub8]

In the United States college and university is the same thing. Its two different words for the same thing. Some schools are called College some are called University. So you finish high school and go to either college or university, same thing. At college or university you finish all your pre-requisites that are required for later schools and get your bachelor's degree. After you finish that, you can go to graduate school such as dental school, medical school, etc. or you can go and get a master's degree or PhD.

I hope that clears things up.

 

[Arunas]

What about Europe? UK ?
Are coledge and university the same thing there?
If so, Are the requarements somewhat different ?

 

[Sed8&Intub8]

I am not too sure about this, but from my understanding, in the UK, University pretty much the same thing as College or University in the US. It is more of a generic term for an institution of higher education. So, undergrad, and grad school (postgraduate in UK) both go to University. Something sometimes done is the United States as well is where they will say that there is a college within a University. Such as Harvard University may have a college of Humanities, or college of Arts, or college of Sciences, etc., so these colleges are within the University, but the University itself will give you the degree that you have earned.

Please correct me if I was wrong, as I am not 100% about this. I left the European system around middle school.

 

[schrizto]

In the UK their college system is more specialized than in the US in that you apply for a major and that's pretty much all what you study in college. At least that's what I've heard about the UK, you would probably need to ask someone from the UK to clarify this.

In the US: High school (Take SAT/ACT) --> College or University

btw, make sure it's spelled "college".

 

[snoopypoo]

While college and universities are described commonly as explained above, some times there are colleges within a university. such as the college of liberal arts or the college of natural sciences, etc. They are just divisions of the university to areas of major study.

 

[Mopp22]

I looked it up, also universities have research facilities and graduate programs. They offer professional and doctoral degrees, etc. Apparently a college will only offer a bachelor's degree.

 

[schrizto]

I looked it up, also universities have research facilities and graduate programs. They offer professional and doctoral degrees, etc. Apparently a college will only offer a bachelor's degree.

Not necessarily. A college can still have lots of research facilities and graduate programs. They do tend to be smaller in general than universities though. An example would be Dartmouth College.

 

[Rogue Synapse]

Dartmouth College is actually a true university but has retained the name "college" for historical reasons - i.e. they started out as a college and the name has stuck while the school has grown into a major research university. For a period of time in the early 1800's, in fact, a group of New Hampshire legislators attempted to make Dartmouth a public college by creating a rival school named Dartmouth University that would receive state funding. The plot didn't work, "Dartmouth University" closed, and perhaps in part because of this, the original institution has been named "Dartmouth College" to this day.

As far as "college" vs. "university" goes, posters above have accurately described the difference: After high school, Americans typically say they are "going to college", regardless of whether the school they will attend is a College or University. The difference in naming is typically due to whether the institution has postgraduate education available: master's and doctoral degrees. If so, the school is usually called a university. There is no strict regulation of this nomenclature. Also, "university" tends to be an umbrella term for the larger organizations, some of which may have smaller degree-granting schools called "colleges" within them. For example, "College of Music", "College of Nursing", or even certain eponymously named colleges within universities.