page_title: College
section_title: Higher education
hierarchical_section_title: College / Overview / Higher education
caption_attribution_description: English: South West Building, Strand Campus, overlooking the Thames
context_page_description: A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school.
  In the United States, "college" may refer to a constituent part of a university or to a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, but generally "college" and "university" are used interchangeably, whereas in the United Kingdom, Oceania, South Asia, Southern Africa, most of Europe and Africa, and Canada, "college" may refer to a high school or secondary school, a college of further education, a training institution that awards trade qualifications, a higher-education provider that does not have university status, or a constituent part of a university.
context_section_description: Within higher education, the term can be used to refer to:
  A constituent part of a collegiate university, for example King's College, Cambridge, or of a federal university, for example King's College London.
  A liberal arts college, an independent institution of higher education focusing on undergraduate education, such as Williams College or Amherst College.
  A liberal arts division of a university whose undergraduate program does not otherwise follow a liberal arts model, such as the Yuanpei College at Peking University.
  An institute providing specialised training, such as a college of further education, for example Belfast Metropolitan College, a teacher training college, or an art college.
  In the United States, college is sometimes but rarely a synonym for a research university, such as Dartmouth College, one of the eight universities in the Ivy League.
caption: King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London.
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