Apparently my silly Australian brain messed up and I used "college" in place of "university" in the latest chapter of SBPS. Three instances of the the words were changed, the story itself is not impacted.
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4837256 Heh. Here in 'stralia a "college" can refer to any school that consists of multiple campuses. When I went to high school (many, many years ago) I attended Traralgon Secondary College (which was a high school with two campuses, one for grade 7-9 and one for 10-12).
I thought in the US university was interchangeable with college. Got it all sorted now.
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A quick googling says a university is just a college that's gained enough levels, offers post-grad classes, and some accreditation.
Every university is also a college. Not every college is a university.
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It's more accurate to say college is interchangeable with university.
In my neck of the States, college genrally refers to any post-primary education Institute. We only use university when referring to the schools name (I.e. University of Texas, Oklahoma University). We say "going to college" rather than "going to university"
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4837272 Well, fortunately EqG is not exactly America, so I am going to twist things a little.
The university (Canterlot University) will have two distinct parts
a) College (for undergrad study)
b) Institute (for post-grad and research)
Each will be considered its own campus, with their own dean in charge of them. There is a president of the school, Hurricane, who oversees any inter-campus things (like gathering students with knowledge of magic to push through college into post-grad study, and eventually build a faculty of magic).
So is there a difference?
as no native I use both xD In fact for me University is mor natural because it is similar to how it is said in other languages
4837296 By the standard US definition, a college is undergraduate schooling, be it at a college (a school that specializes in undergraduate education) or a university (a school that diversifies between undergraduate and post-graduate study, as well as possibly research).
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Is that valid for all english speaking countries?
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I also thought that they were interchangeable, and I live in the US. I went to a university but refer to it as "I went to college" normally.
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As some who lives in the US, we use the term 'college' almost exclusively unless talking about the name of the school. To us, when we hear someone say they are "going to university" it immediately communicates that they are European.
Wait a minute. Another Aussie? Y'all are just popping up here and there!
Side note: are you going to Alicon?
4837389 I am not. Can't really make those kinds of things.
Although I am not an American, my exposure to American media led me to believe that the vulgar definition did not quite match the standard US definition that you quoted. I doubt I'd have picked up a problem with it in your story.
4837409 It was mostly that I called the university (and it really does need to be a university) a college. All sorted now.