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What's the difference between "College" and "University"?

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Until recently I assume they were synonymous 😅, Here you go to Uni immediatly after finishing HS.

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Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org
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Sort of. There are colleges within university in the US too, we just don’t usually talk about it

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Alto@kbin.social
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Yep. I was apart of my uni’s stem college. I want to say there were probably 5 or 6 colleges in my uni

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bermuda@beehaw.org
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my major is part of my college’s college of the environment. we also have a business college, college of sciences, college of linguistics, etc.

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