福州龙腰校区:告诉我college和university之间的区别

都可以给学生颁发学位，有时候取决于他们之间专业领域的不同颁发不同学位，从传统意义上来说一般一个University下面可以包括很多的学院，也就是College，现在也是这种情况，在一些小的城镇某些学院，也就是College，他只颁发大学学位，不具备颁发研究生和博士学位的能力，所以，基本上来说综合性大学和学院的区别就是综合性大学能够颁发硕士和博士学位，而一些小的学院只具备颁发大学学位的能力。

具体来说，college比较偏向于学院的意思，而university则多数指比较大的和正式的大学，另外，一个大学里也可以包含几个学院，则university可以包含college

The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of colleagues (see for example electoral college, College of Arms). Originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, "together" + leg-, "law"); as a consequence members of colleges were originally styled "fellows" and still are in some places. The precise usage of the term varies among English-speaking countries.

A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctor) in a variety of subjects. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education. University is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning corporation (since the first medieval European universities were simply groups of scholars).