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The difference between universities and colleges
1 has different meanings.

University refers to ordinary institutions of higher learning. It is an organization with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions.

Institutions of higher learning are schools that provide higher education to citizens, collectively referred to as universities, junior colleges, higher vocational and technical colleges and junior colleges.

2. Different levels and ranges

Universities are divided into comprehensive universities, junior colleges or colleges. It selects people with high school education or above for education and training, and tests their knowledge and skills through examinations. It belongs to a kind of colleges and universities and has a narrow scope.

Institutions of higher learning Institutions of higher learning include ordinary institutions of higher learning, adult institutions of higher learning and private institutions of higher learning. In terms of education and training level, it includes junior college students, undergraduates, master students and doctoral students, and the scope is wider.

3. The Ministry of Education invests different resources.

Colleges and universities are the focus of investment in college construction and an important place for professional education for students. The Ministry of Education has invested heavily in this area, and universities have more resources and preferential treatment than other universities. The scope of colleges and universities is very wide, but the investment in them is relatively small.

Extended data:

According to the nature of colleges and universities, colleges and universities in China are mainly divided into ordinary colleges and adult colleges and universities.

Ordinary institutions of higher learning refer to institutions of higher learning that are approved or put on record by the national education administrative department and mainly implement ordinary higher education, which are divided into undergraduate level and junior college level.

Ordinary institutions of higher learning at undergraduate and postgraduate levels are named "XX University" or "XX College", and independent colleges are named "XX University (College) XX College". The name of the college at the junior college level is ×× College, ×× College, ×× Vocational and Technical College or ×× Vocational College.

Ordinary colleges and universities are divided into: comprehensive, normal, engineering, agriculture, agriculture and forestry, medicine, forestry, Chinese, finance and economics, politics and law, sports, art and nationality.

References:

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