High school is the best time of your life...

Is there really a difference? I always just saw it as a university just being a college that is seen as more prestigious by whoever decides how prestigious institutions of higher education are.

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Here a 'college' is generally taken to mean a place where you go if you want to train to be a hairdresser or something, while a university is where you go to get degrees and Ph Ds and such.

They are completely different types of establishment.

Of course, it gets a bit more complicated when you remember that universities have different 'colleges' within them, but they aren't the same as standalone colleges.

For example:

Aberdeen College is not Aberdeen University.

edited 28th Oct '12 1:41:10 AM by InverurieJones

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Personally I always frond it to be a purely academic distinction : )

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Colleges also tend to work as lead-in's to Uni, doing the equivalent of the first year or two of a Uni degree. For example, when I finish my HND in College I can go straight into third year at Uni.

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In the US the words are used almost interchangeably. I meant university, by your definitions.

College is smaller and has fewer options in the U.S. or one specific school within the much larger University.

And for the last time,I didn't hate High School,it wasn't the best time,but when it was good it was good and the bad times usually washed away (well except with anything related to that one class,both of which ended up having a tremendous effect on the middle years.

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