On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:40:37 +0100, Charlie Pearce
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> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:27:50 -0700 (PDT), "Richard R. Hershberger"
> <rrhersh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >27 seems to me absurdly low. I wouldn't be surprised to find that
> >close to 27 institutions of higher learning in my state of Maryland
> >have football teams. That is including both colleges and
> >universities.
>
> Colleges *and* universities? I always assumed they were synonyms in
> the USA. What's the defining difference?
The PhD, in brief. Colleges offer undergraduate education, perhaps in
a limited number of fields. They don't have graduate schools and
don't confer doctorates, although some offer masters. Universities
cover most, if not all, fields and have graduate schools.
In California, for example, this difference was, until fairly
recently, enshrined in law. The California State Colleges couldn't
confer graduate degrees. That was reserved for the University of
California. Things have loosened up enough that CSC turned into CSU
and is now allowed to confer masters degrees.
Just to make in confusing, I went to college at the University of
California, Los Angeles. I didn't go to university. I even went to
school at UCLA, not at Antelope Valley High School. I went to high
school at AVHS.
Mary "We just do it to confuse you"
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