1, different levels.

College mainly refers to higher education institutions with fewer disciplines and stronger professionalism. The college can be an independent school.

Department is a teaching management organization set up by colleges and universities according to their professional nature. According to the category of majors, an institution of higher learning can be divided into several departments, and one or several majors with similar nature can be set up below the department.

2. The scale is different.

The college should have strong teaching and research strength, high teaching and research level and corresponding scale, and be able to implement undergraduate and above education. Generally, the college has a national discipline as the main discipline, and the full-time students are over 3,000.

Generally, each department has a dean and several vice presidents who lead the professional teaching and research section, laboratory and relevant research room (institute) of the department, and are responsible for planning and organizing the teaching and research work of the department.

3. The system is different.

The implementation of the college system means that the school has a college, a college has a department, a department has a major, and a major has a class.

The implementation of the department system means that the school has departments, majors and classes.

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