University vs. College
The main and major difference between a College and University is that college offers undergraduate or maximum postgraduate programs. However, University is such a place where students are offered to get admission in the classes ranging from graduation to the highest level in the field of studies. Colleges start with at least intermediate classes and can take the students to complete their post-graduation. College is limited in terms of educating its students and there is no concept of research work inside the wall of a college. On the other hand, universities facilitate the students to pursue their goals to the highest level in their particular field. Students are offered facilities as well as are asked to indulge them into research work related to their course of studies. University is a broader place which actually serves to shine the students in the real term to prepare them for the real, practical life. College, however, includes graduate and post-graduate program, but only prepares its students in the limited spheres. Universities have a number of departments serving a variety of fields for studies. The college has a limited sphere, mostly for preparing the students to step in some university. College doesn't offer students to enjoy having higher education. University accommodates its students to their limits.
Key Differences
College can only offer its students to gain an education at the maximum of post-graduate level; university comes with limitless opportunities for getting the education
College asks its students to choose any particular field to study; university, on the other hand, actually gets it students to study deeply into their specific field
College offers limited sphere of education; University leads its students to the new heights
No one can have a Ph.D. in any subject while being in College as it is University which allows you to do so.
Harlon Moss
Jan 13, 2016
There is no research work inside the walls of college; university forces its students to indulge themselves into research work
Comparison Chart
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Such a place which facilitates students to continue their post-college education.
Such a place which facilitates students to continue their post-school education.
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Research
People are motivated to research
People follow the course
Limit
Postgraduate
Pre graduate
University and College Definitions
University
An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities typically including a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
College
An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.
University
The buildings and grounds of such an institution.
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College
An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field or group of fields.
University
The body of students and faculty of such an institution.
College
A junior or community college.
University
Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.
College
A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject
A medical college.
University
The universe; the whole.
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College
The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions
New policies adopted by the college.
University
An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others.
College
The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located
Drove over to the college.
University
An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty
The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.
College
Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.
University
The body of faculty and students at a university
College
An institution for secondary education in France and certain other countries that is not supported by the state.
University
Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
College
A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties
A college of surgeons.
University
A large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
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 College
College is such a place which facilitates students to continue their post-school education. It is the first place where students are asked to choose either of the fields in order to master in it later on. Although college is a broader place as compared to high school, it has its limitations when comes to offer specialization. Students can only achieve graduation and can’t study higher than post-graduation.
Definition of University
University is the topmost place for getting an education. It is this place which offers its students to pursue their obsessions related to education to their limits. University allows its students to enjoy research work to invent something new in their relevant field. University leads the students to the heights where they actually want to see them. University trains its students to become professional in order to prepare for practical life and to meet the challenges of life after getting an education.
