Ok to graduate from a College?

[Dental Mom]

I'm in the early stages of finding out more info on this.

Thanks in advance...

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[DcS]

Take it for what it's worth, but if you do well enough anywhere and do well on the DATs it's not going to be a big deal where you went to school at *most* places. Of course to some dental schools it may matter, but IMO those aren't the schools worth going to anyways.

 

[aphistis]

The name isn't as important as the type of institution it is. If it primarily awards bachelors' degrees, it's fine. If it awards associates' degrees to most of its graduates, it's a community college.

 

[Dental Mom]

It has 50 majors and 80 minors, so I guess this school it's a good choice

 

[J2AZ]

Institutions of higher education are called universities when they have graduate programs in addition to undergraduate programs. You have a college if it does not award graduate degrees but only undergraduate bachelor's degrees. The undergraduate programs at universities are often called colleges (eg college of arts and science, college of social and behavioral science). Community colleges and junior colleges award associate degrees and prepare students for transfer to colleges and universities. Many would say a better undergraduate education is received at a college due to the fact they are often small and private thus give more individual attention to the student.
You will be fine at either. Your education is what you make of it.

 

[megawatt]

CCs generally don't award BAs - at least not in california. But a "college" could be a very good and/or reputable school, such as the innumberable liberal arts schools scattered around the country: oberlin, reed, amherst, etc. A university, as I understand it, is usually a collection of colleges -- sometimes generically named, such as college of letters and sciences, college of engineering, college of law, medicine, etc. Non-universified "colleges" can certainly have graduate degrees - this is not limited to universities. Mills College in Oakland, for example, offers masters degrees, and dartmouth college offers PhDs.

For undergraduates, there is no advantage to going to a university over a college that offers comparative degrees (bachelors), except that most public (read: inexpensive) institutions are universities.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Institutions of higher education are called universities when they have graduate programs in addition to undergraduate programs.

That doesn't even come close to being a hard and fast rule. For example, take Boston COLLEGE, which offers graduate degrees in Arts, has a business school that grants MBA degrees (among others), has a law school that grants the JD, etc.

 

[J2AZ]

That doesn't even come close to being a hard and fast rule. For example, take Boston COLLEGE, which offers graduate degrees in Arts, has a business school that grants MBA degrees (among others), has a law school that grants the JD, etc.

You have a point. Throughout time many colleges have started graduate programs and have chosen to maintain their title as a college when in reality they are now a university.

After all you cant have two institutions named "Boston University"