Departments in universities generally refer to colleges, such as management schools and law schools, and refer to majors in colleges, such as Chinese departments and philosophy departments.

Because the number of students in each school is different, the schools with fewer students are majors, and the schools with more students are divided into departments and majors. So different schools have different points, and there is no certain law.

For example, Tsinghua University is a large-scale civil engineering department, which can be upgraded to a college of civil engineering, but they have always been called the civil engineering department. The same is true internationally. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a world-famous institution. It is not called MIT.

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Schools are divided into universities and colleges according to their scale. The large-scale ones are called universities, and the small ones are called colleges. Departments in universities are divided by disciplines, colleges are bigger than departments, and colleges are divided by disciplines. In other words, the university is divided into several secondary colleges, and each secondary college has several departments, and each department has several undergraduate or postgraduate majors.

For example, there are three colleges in Peking University: School of Mathematical Sciences, School of Information Science and Technology, School of Physics, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of International Relations, School of Basic Medicine, School of Engineering and School of Foreign Languages.

The above institutes of technology have departments of industrial engineering and management, mechanics and aerospace technology, energy and resource engineering, biomedical engineering, advanced materials and nanotechnology. In front of the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Technology is the undergraduate major of theoretical and applied mechanics.

For example, the School of Mathematical Sciences includes the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Probability and Statistics, the Department of Computing in Science and Engineering, the Department of Information Science and the Department of Financial Mathematics. The department of mathematics has undergraduate majors in mathematics and applied mathematics.