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Right, we have something similar in Germany - Fachoberschulen (you could translate it as "Higher technical school", which are more practical. I just didn't get the connection to "college", as Germans tend to use composite words a lot.
Ditto. I've always wondered what's the difference of college and university in US, without realising it could be so simple. We too have the same difference, but same as german, we use a long composite word for it :D
 

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Ditto. I've always wondered what's the difference of college and university in US, without realising it could be so simple. We too have the same difference, but same as german, we use a long composite word for it :D
By the way, in the UK, we use college for a lot of stuff, we basically just slap it in front of stuff to make it sound cooler. There are colleges within proper universities, there are private schools called "college", there are colleges between secondary school and university and there are colleges like in the US.

So... a bit of confusion is probably expected.

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Ditto. I've always wondered what's the difference of college and university in US, without realising it could be so simple. We too have the same difference, but same as german, we use a long composite word for it :D
As far as California is concerned...

Short and simple: Universities deal in research and theory. Universities are the only places you can get certain high end degrees (doctorates) and are more expensive.
 
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What's the German equivalent of university? In the States there is a difference between going to a College and going to a University. IE. Going to the University of California at Riverside is more prestigious then going to California State University at Riverside and both are better then going to Riverside California community college.
Well, there's universities and community colleges, which are different. But there are also colleges INSIDE the universities.

I went to Arizona State University, which is a big school (~50,000 students) all studying different things. I specifically studied engineering, which meant I was in the "Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering". (Ira Fulton being some moneybags who made a donation). But many of the different specialties are referred to as colleges. The College of Fine Arts, College of Law, etc. The term college and school seem to be used interchangeably to refer to a specialty within the University (So named for it's universal coverage of educational topics).

Just to add even more confusion to you dirty foreigners.
 

Well, there's universities and community colleges, which are different. But there are also colleges INSIDE the universities.

I went to Arizona State University, which is a big school (~50,000 students) all studying different things. I specifically studied engineering, which meant I was in the "Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering". (Ira Fulton being some moneybags who made a donation). But many of the different specialties are referred to as colleges. The College of Fine Arts, College of Law, etc. The term college and school seem to be used interchangeably to refer to a specialty within the University (So named for it's universal coverage of educational topics).

Just to add even more confusion to you dirty foreigners.

Education is a business withing the US.
 


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