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Better than people confusing it with college though
those arent the same thing?
A university is a college but a college is not necessarily a university. (At least in the U.S)
Community colleges and State colleges vary from Universities usually that Universities require graduate programs. Not sure all the specifics but if you want an Associates degree you can usually get one at either. A masters degree you can't normally get at a State College. (Exceptions might exist, I'm sure someone will shit on my breakdown and correct it haha)
I wish this was as straight forward as this tries to make it. In the US there has been a shift to re-designate colleges as universities based on the number of graduate and non-graduate programs, requiring at least one of each as far as I can tell. The side effect is that a lot of state colleges are now state universities with individual "colleges" within them for the specific program groups.
Which is to say that some state colleges were correctly rebranded as universities, but you can go to a state college and have it be a university.
(And yes, even further exceptions exist and I look forward to being enlightened about the various universities in the middle of nowhere serving 15 people.)
They're different words, aren't they?
They're the same word, just pronounced differently.
And English has never had two words mean the same thing
I think it's already been explained for the most part in other comments but yes, here (UK) there's a difference between college (post-16 A-level equivalent) and university (post-18, requires college or A-level first)