After reading for so many years, do you know what is the biggest difference between a university and a college?

First of all, universities and schools at the same level are similar. But for colleges, apart from the differences in names, there is also a certain gap between colleges and universities. Of course, this gap is not necessarily in terms of teaching quality, but also in other aspects. As long as it meets the requirements of the Ministry of Education and is approved by the Ministry of Education, the college can be renamed as a university. Renaming a university actually has many advantages. First, the funding for scientific research has increased. Second, the relevant people's political achievements have improved, and the school's administrative level has improved. Third, the number and increase of enrollment and the improvement of the quality of students. This is also one of the reasons why colleges and universities are scrambling to change universities in recent years.

There are four main indicators from university to university:

The scale of running a school requires that the number of full-time students should be more than 8,000, and the number of graduate students should not be less than 5% of the total number of full-time students. The college requires more than 5000 full-time students. In terms of disciplines and majors, in the humanities (philosophy, literature, history), social sciences (economics, law, education), science, engineering, agronomy, medicine, management and other disciplines, the college should have more than 1 as the main discipline; A university should have more than three subjects as its main subjects. In terms of teachers, among the full-time teachers called colleges, the proportion of teachers with graduate degrees in the total number of full-time teachers should be no less than 30%; Among the full-time teachers known as universities, the proportion of people with graduate degrees should generally reach more than 50%. At the level of teaching and scientific research, colleges and universities should also meet these standards-in the past five years, the average annual scientific research experience of schools mainly in humanities and social sciences should reach at least 5 million yuan, and other colleges and universities should reach at least 30 million yuan; At least 2 key laboratories at or above the provincial level and 2 key disciplines; Generally, there must be at least 10 master programs, and there must be more than 5 master graduates.

Netizen 2:

There are still some qualitative differences between universities and colleges:

1. Differences in teaching staff. The total number of full-time teachers in a school called a college is not less than 280 at the beginning of its establishment. The proportion of full-time teachers with graduate education in the total number of full-time teachers is not less than 30%, and the full-time teachers with full professor positions are not less than 10. The proportion of full-time teachers with postgraduate degrees in colleges and universities should generally reach more than 50%, and the proportion of full-time teachers with doctoral degrees should generally reach more than 20%.

2. Differences in scientific research capabilities. A university should have at least two projects that have won the first and second prizes at the national level or the first prize at the provincial level in the last two teaching achievement evaluations.

3. Differences in school building area. A school called a college should have a total construction area of not less than 654.38+0.5 million square meters at the beginning of its establishment; The average area of teaching, scientific research and administrative buildings in ordinary undergraduate schools is not less than 20 square meters for science, engineering, agriculture and medicine, not less than 15 square meters for humanities, social sciences and management, and not less than 30 square meters for sports and art.

4. Differences between disciplines. Colleges should have 1 or above as the main disciplines, and universities should have more than 3 disciplines as the main disciplines.

Netizen 3:

"A university is an undergraduate and a college is a junior college." This persuasion is wrong. Generally, universities are divided into many colleges, and each college has an undergraduate course and a junior college (some will have one of them, but this is rare). It can be said that colleges are a subset of universities. The so-and-so college or university we usually see can only be understood as: the comprehensive majors in universities are relatively strong, and there are generally many majors in different industries. The college is specialized, which is obvious at first glance. For example, as soon as she saw the Foreign Languages Institute, she knew that her major was related to Otawa Foreign Languages, and as soon as she saw the Medical College, she knew that her major was related to Otawa Medicine. It's not hard to understand.

Netizen 4:

All school names with the word "University" at the back, such as Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University. It is a state-owned university established by the state. Independent college or junior college is not a university, but this school may have a new major, because it is not a university, but it has its strong professionalism and certain teaching characteristics.

Some colleges are branches of universities or private universities. Generally, universities are state-owned universities, with stronger teachers than colleges, different teachers' levels and different fees. National universities charge more than college universities. I hope it will help readers understand. Generally speaking, universities are better than colleges. However, the majors set up by a university are not necessarily one major, but there are also two or three majors. There is also a professional university, and a famous university will not have three majors.

Netizen 5:

Can only say that China likes the reputation of the university too much, as if the college is not as good as the university! California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are weaker than Harvard and Oxford University because they are colleges and have not changed their names? California Institute of Technology is the number one university in the world in recent years, but it only uses the name of the college. But how many colleges and universities in China want to be called universities? Sounds like a joke. This also reflects the gap between China and developed countries on the other hand, including not only the economy, but also the political and cultural gap and the people's level gap.

Netizen 6:

The so-called university generally refers to a school with many disciplines (such as science, technology, medicine, agriculture, literature, economics, management, etc.). ), also known as a comprehensive university, and college usually refers to a school with a single discipline or fewer disciplines, such as medical college, engineering college, agricultural college and so on. There is no university, no college, no distinction between high and low. Big and miscellaneous, specialized and refined, miscellaneous is conducive to doing research, refined is more convenient to do technology. Students choose the same school according to their own characteristics and interests. Now many laymen are confused, because there are many colleges in the school called universities, so they think colleges are not as good as universities.

In fact, colleges in universities are only institutions set up for teaching management and have no administrative power (personnel, finance, enrollment, etc. ). Usually several departments (majors) with similar majors are put together and can enjoy teaching resources. Not as good as a university called College. Many schools called colleges are afraid of this misunderstanding, so they try their best to add more subjects regardless of conditions and then change their names to universities. Special attention should be paid to majors when enrolling students in such universities.