In the US, a university offers at least 1 Master or higher degree in some field. A college’s highest degree is an Associate (community college) or Bachelor.
A university will refer to it’s smaller degree areas as College such as College of Educational, College of Business. This is to differentiate them from administrative departments. In the same vain, college’s will have schools of education or business, ect.
In the UK (by what my Brit friends have taught me) college is more like US high school, and university is the education after that (the post secondary education). My friend’s child would be in US high school, but is attending college in England.
You’re sort of right about the UK, colleges are usually institutions that offer higher education, usually to 17-18 year olds, but are not a school. But there are colleges that offer to lower ages and to higher ages, but not offering degrees. College is like a catch all term for non school/university based education
In the US, a university offers at least 1 Master or higher degree in some field. A college’s highest degree is an Associate (community college) or Bachelor.
A university will refer to it’s smaller degree areas as College such as College of Educational, College of Business. This is to differentiate them from administrative departments. In the same vain, college’s will have schools of education or business, ect.
In the UK (by what my Brit friends have taught me) college is more like US high school, and university is the education after that (the post secondary education). My friend’s child would be in US high school, but is attending college in England.
You’re sort of right about the UK, colleges are usually institutions that offer higher education, usually to 17-18 year olds, but are not a school. But there are colleges that offer to lower ages and to higher ages, but not offering degrees. College is like a catch all term for non school/university based education
Sort of like pudding be a catch all for food 😁
Huh. US here, and my secondary school offered masters degree programs but literally had “College” in the name.
The footnote for that is that some schools have “college” in their names due to name recognition, even though they are functionally universities.
For example, Boston College is actually a university, and is considered more prestigious than Boston University.