It's College, Not University!

[Lily Adler]

In society, we run into that one person who didn't go to "college", but "university". Those people are wrong and should be ashamed of it. Where are my college people at! Let's douse the flames of these "university" people once and for all!

 

[Enriquespy]

College sound weird,sounds like elementary school. In Spanish it's "universidad". so University it is!!!!!!

 

[Dr.]

Could be a regional thing. In casual speech, especially in the US, “college” and “university” are interchangeable. But in other parts of the world, “university” is specifically a large, post-secondary, degree-granting (undergraduate and graduate) institution; whereas, a “college” mainly does vocational training (aka community, technical or junior college). Or… a “college” can be a smaller school within a larger one (e.g., Trinity College, Cambridge University).

 

[Lily Adler]

Could be a regional thing. In causal speech, especially in the US, “college” and “university” are interchangeable. But in other parts of the world, “university” is specifically a large, post-secondary, degree-granting (undergraduate and graduate) institution; whereas, a “college” mainly does vocational training (aka community, technical or junior college). Or… a “college” can be a smaller school within a larger one (e.g., Trinity College, Cambridge University).

What you're doing is wrong and concentrated evil!

 

[Teelie]

It's definitely regional. I went to a university but it also had colleges within it, or at least that is how it was explained to me (the "colleges" typically consisted of a subset of majors, like Medical, Construction, English, Mathematics, Biology, etc). The words are practically interchangable at this point.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Different countries have varying names for the levels or ages of education, to me, college is post school, pre university education, university is post 18 year old education, having done all 3, college is college, university is university, two different ages of education, college is further education, university is higher education.

 

[Dr.]

What you're doing is wrong and concentrated evil!

I hope to Rule The World! someday as a supervillain. But I’m starting small with language pedantry.

 

[Lasirius]

I'd agree with Enriquespy and Dr.

I went to elementary and middle-school in a "colegio" in Mexico; that's "college". Upon graduating high school, one would attend an "universidad" which is university. Having moved to the US when I was in college, I began to use "college" for university and would just cause confusion with my parents.

 

[C. Lee]

I always took it as a designation of size. A smaller school is a college and a large one is a university.

 

[Web-Head]

You don't "go to university"- you go to college. I'm not sure what this "Uni" place is and like Kramer says

 

[DarkKnight88]

In Canada, smarter people go to University. College is where you go if you can’t get into University.

 

[Erzengel]

I'll stick with my college, soda, freedom kissing, thank you very much.

 

[Sundancer]

I always took it as a designation of size. A smaller school is a college and a large one is a university.

I think colleges only grant associates and bachelors while universities offer graduate degrees. Universities can be made up of several "colleges" ie departments like Social Work and Psychology so that can be a bit confusing.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

University is the collective, college is the portion of the collective containing smaller portions known as majors or fields.

In my language we say 'University' (the local meaning of it) for campus.

 

[Marvolo]

In society, we run into that one person who didn't go to "college", but "university". Those people are wrong and should be ashamed of it. Where are my college people at! Let's douse the flames of these "university" people once and for all!

University is a different class from college. There is a certain prestige and history. Like Harvard, Yale, Oxford etc. You go to university for 4+ years.

College is something you go to to get an associates degree or some other minor qualification. Its cheaper than University and smaller. Community colleges for example.

That's how I view it.

 

[Iceman]

You can get (bachelors) degrees from Oxford in 3 years. In England universities are for post 18 education whereas colleges can be for the 16-18 age group.