High School vs. College
High school is the place where teenagers' wings are being knitted but they are not fully ready to fly. There are, mostly, common subjects which are compulsory to study during school classes under a prolonged duration of a day wrapped up 7 to 8 periods. In college, unlike school, a completely different atmosphere waits to set you free from all the restrictions you faced under the cage of school. Now, teenagers are getting ready to fly to explore the other world. No such restrictions are found in College. In college, studies become more specific and students need to choose a particular field according to their interest and inclinations. In college, there are lecturers, professors, and scholar who deliver a lecture on the particular subject in which they have expertise. On the other hand, in high school, though there is a subject specialist, most teachers are not highly qualified and they deal with more than one subjects. As soon as teen enters inside the wall of the college, they enter into a sort of social circle which has no place in High school. While being in High school, students are partially oblivious about what culture they belong to, while in college, the concerns begin to grow. In High school, students are mostly supposed to follow the orders and advice given by their teachers as well as parents, while College asks you to draw your lines and make your decisions by yourself.
Key Differences
Teachers and coordinators structured students time; students to manage their own time.
Teachers are accountable for students' negligence in High school; lecturers and professors just deliver their lectures.
Harlon Moss
Jan 09, 2016
Highs cool is mandatory and less expensive; college is voluntary and expensive.
Participation in extracurricular activities needs permission; students have to decide by themselves.
Classes are arranged for students in High school, while College asks you to arrange your schedule with the advice of your consultants.
Teachers have to pay heed to each student in High school; professors and lecturers are independent of such responsibilities.
Janet White
Jan 09, 2016
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Students are expected to move within the curriculum; College encourages students to invent new things.
Janet White
Jan 09, 2016
There is no or partial concept of socialism in High school; College persuades you to have a social life.
Samantha Walker
Jan 09, 2016
Teachers ask students to complete their work in school; professors and lecturers expect students to reciprocate with them.
Janet White
Jan 09, 2016
Comparison Chart
Working
Classes are arranged for students
You arrange your schedule with the advice of consultants
Activities
Participation in extracurricular activities needs permission
Students get to decide on their own
Students
Students are expected to move within the curriculum
Encourages students to invent new things
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High School and College Definitions
College
An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.
College
An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field or group of fields.
College
A junior or community college.
College
A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject
A medical college.
College
The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions
New policies adopted by the college.
College
The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located
Drove over to the college.
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College
Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.
College
An institution for secondary education in France and certain other countries that is not supported by the state.
College
A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties
A college of surgeons.
College
An electoral college.
College
A body of clerics living together on an endowment.
College
(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
College
(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons
College
(politics) An electoral college.
College
An academic institution.
College
A specialized division of a university.
College of Engineering
College
An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
She's still in college
These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
College
A university.
College
(Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
College
A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Balliol College, Oxford
University College, London
College
(UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
College
(UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
College
A high school or secondary school.
Eton College
College
(Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.
College
(Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
College
(Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.
College
(in Chile) A bilingual school.
College
A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
The college of the cardinals.
Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this.
College
A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
College
A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
College
Fig.: A community.
Thick as the college of the bees in May.
College
The body of faculty and students of a college
College
An institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
College
British slang for prison
College
A complex of buildings in which a college is housed
Definition of High School
A high school is a place where students are being introduced with specific branches of different fields separately i.e. chemistry, physics, biology, zoology, etc. Here, students are being prepared to face tougher exams and the first real test of their never comes at the climax of High school life. There are lots of restrictions in the High school. Students are still not independent and are considered to be at the early stage of their learning.
Definition of College
College provides the teenagers the first terminal to get started flying. Being a higher level, college gives a much free-to-move place to its students. Here, the students have to chose a specific field of study and they are going to have a real study into the subject which was introduced to them in high school. College is such a place where there is no place for naive or too innocent students. In fact, college rubs such students to become smart and prudish. College prepares the students for practical life. Students are being prepared to meet the challenges of the world. They get vocational training inside the college.
