College in a Nutshell

[gla22]

In the U.S. a 2 year program gives you an associates and a 4 year gives you a bachelors. Other programs can give certificates which have varying usefulness.

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[Dobby]

Here, college is somewhere you go after secondary school between the ages 16-18 in general. University or 'uni' is where you study your bachelor's or masters or doctorate degrees etc.

A bachelor's degree here = 3 year university degree.

[Professor]

Figured it was something getting lost in the translation, Ex.

Yeah, I've heard of an associates and bachelors.

You know what's odd? When I was typing all this, I glanced over at my wall. I always thought that a "diploma" was what you got in HS, and a "degree" was what you got in college (4-year). But, my Bachelor of Arts in Business Management clearly states "DIPLOMA"! But, it mentions that I am "entitled to all the rights a privileges of that Degree".

Evidently, the "diploma" is the paper, while the "degree" is the title or certification. My Master's doesn't even say "diploma", it just says "degree".

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[John Galt]

the difference between colleges and universities at least in the states is that universities offer graduate studies as well as undergraduate and colleges do not.

there are also subbaccalaureate awards that aren't even degrees that you can get for doing like a one year course on management or something that isn't technically college level work. associate's degree is a 2 year program that is of college level work, while bachelor's is a 4 year program. then of course you have masters and doctorate beyond that

and because ex, you said you were disappointed, and no, you were not only discussing your experiences. your first sentence was, "To be fair, there are very few people going to school that are going for the sake of an education." which means everything you are explaining has to do with how nobody goes to school for the sake of an education, blah blah blah you don't even get to talk to professors and what about the "organizing politically"?!?!! (which to me was a completely bizarre statement). so it wasn't just about you. and i was saying perhaps you got lost in a bigger university, is all. some people do better in smaller ones, others, bigger ones.

[Philly]

Yeah the political organizing thing was weird ex. Sure, some forms of political organizing take place on campus, but I've never heard of that as a primary reason for going to school.

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It wasn't that I plotted to take over the world by going to university, it's that I expected an academic environment with people who were similarly passionate about what they were learning. If you are taking primarily political science courses you ought to actually want to do something political... Which means political organizing. But instead it was just a bunch of people who were there because they didn't know what else to take. I don't know about you, but I didn't spend thousands to go to a university and be surrounded by people and professors who don't give a shit - learning is much more than the catastrophe they call modern education.

[gla22]

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