What is the difference between a college and a university? First, schools are different in size.
The number of college students is about 5,000, and a university needs 8,000 people and not less than 8,000 people to be called a university. In terms of disciplines, colleges should have more than 1 as the main disciplines, and universities should have more than 3 disciplines. At the same time, there are many more universities than colleges that set up master's degree awarding points.
Second, teachers are different.
The number of teachers in universities is not only more than that in colleges, but also the qualifications of teachers are relatively high. Professional teachers in universities have many degrees, such as graduate students and doctors, and the proportion of full-time teachers with graduate degrees should generally reach more than 50%. Among them, the proportion of doctors should generally reach more than 20%.
Third, the infrastructure is different.
The campus area, teaching and research equipment, the number of books, practice places and other aspects of the university are much better than those of the college. Better quality and quantity, more beautiful campus environment.
Is a university necessarily better than a college? In a word, the Ministry of Education requires higher qualifications for universities than colleges. However, are all "colleges" inferior to "universities"? In fact, there are still many misunderstandings. With the development of the times, we should also innovate our own ideas.
So where did the misunderstanding come from? Mainly, most colleges in China are called "colleges", which makes everyone feel that as long as the word "college" is used, it is not worth mentioning.
This misunderstanding is also normal. After all, the Ministry of Education has other lower requirements for colleges, so the level of most colleges is not too high.
However, there are exceptions to everything and we cannot generalize. For example, the well-known Beijing Film Academy and Shanghai Theatre Academy are also marked with the word "Academy", but these two schools are very strong and well-known, and have trained many excellent artists for us, so "Academy" is not synonymous with specialties, and there are many excellent schools.