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Until recently I assume they were synonymous ๐Ÿ˜…, Here you go to Uni immediatly after finishing HS.

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[-] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

But also every university is a collection of colleges. For instance, there will be a college of arts and sciences, a college of engineering, a college of medicine, etc all at a single university

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True although in Canada we tend to refer to the colleges in collegiate universities as faculties, and so the word college remains dedicated to the separate kind of post secondary institution the other dude described.

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