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university vs college

university

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noun

  1. the body of faculty and students at a university
  2. a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
  3. establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

Examples

McGill University, however, has found a way to increase access to its rare books - thanks to a lot of grant money and one badass digital camera.

Most of this I've written down to get my own thoughts in order before I start draughting letters to the media, but first I have a couple of weeks of university to catch up on… sheesh.

Their children were mostly of high school age or attending university which required a great deal of money.

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college

Definitions

noun

  1. a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed
  2. an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
  3. the body of faculty and students of a college

Examples

A few weeks later I was fired from my job at Hunter College.

I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds.

That this is true is not to suggest that reality always comports with state law and college rules.

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