Richard R. Hershberger wrote:
> On Jun 18, 5:36 pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
> <reunite.gondw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:40:37 +0100, Charlie Pearce
>>
>> <charlie.pea...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:27:50 -0700 (PDT), "Richard R. Hershberger"
>>> <rrhe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>
> This is usually, but not always true. Boston College is the classic
> example of an institution that would normally be classified as a
> university. It even has a strong football program. In the other
> direction, Arcadia University outside Philadelphia is a smallish
> private school that until a few years ago called itself a college, but
> upgraded itself when it started offering a few graduate programs.
Colorado School of Mines is still a "school", but it has offered
Master's and Doctorate degrees for a long time.
I just checked, and was surprised to find that the University of
the South not only has a football team, but that it won one of
its 9 games last year. Average attendance: 1400 per game. In an
other statistic, University of the South has produced more Rhodes
Scholars per capita than any other US institute of higher learning.
Charles
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