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What is the difference between a college and a university?
1, the difference between colleges and universities, the difference of school scale: student scale, university: full-time students ≥ 8,000, graduate students ≥ 5% of the total number of full-time students. College: Full-time students ≥5000. Discipline, in science, engineering, medicine, humanities, social sciences and other disciplines, with at least 1 or more as the main discipline is called a college, and with at least 3 or more disciplines as the main discipline is called a university.

2. The difference between universities and colleges: universities: at least 50% of full-time teachers have a postgraduate degree and 20% have a doctoral degree; At least 400 full-time teachers have senior professional and technical positions, and at least 100 full-time teachers have full professor positions. College: the total number of full-time teachers is ≥280 at the beginning of school, and at least 30% of full-time teachers have postgraduate education; At least 30% of full-time teachers have associate senior professional and technical positions, of which at least 10 has the requirements of full professor position.

3. The difference between a university and a college: in science, engineering, medicine, humanities and social sciences, the college has at least 1 or above as the main discipline, and the university has at least 3 or more disciplines as the main discipline.