The difference between College and Department
When used as nouns, college means a corporate group, whereas department means a part, portion, or subdivision.
check bellow for the other definitions of College and Department
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College as a noun (obsolete):
A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
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College as a noun (in some proper nouns):
A group sharing common purposes or goals.
Examples:
"College of Cardinals'', ''College of Surgeons"
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College as a noun (politics):
An electoral college.
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College as a noun:
An academic institution.
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College as a noun:
A specialized division of a university.
Examples:
"College of Engineering"
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College as a noun (chiefly, US):
An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
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College as a noun (attributively, chiefly, US):
Attendance at an institution of higher education.
Examples:
"These should be his college years, but he joined the Army."
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College as a noun (Canada, Israel):
A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
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College as a noun (chiefly, UK):
A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
Examples:
"Pembroke College, Cambridge''; ''Balliol College, Oxford''; ''University College, London"
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College as a noun (UK):
An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
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College as a noun (UK):
An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
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College as a noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa):
A high school or secondary school.
Examples:
"Eton College"
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College as a noun (Australia):
A private (non-government) primary or high school.
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College as a noun (Australia):
A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
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College as a noun (in Chile):
A bilingual school.
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Department as a noun:
A part, portion, or subdivision.
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Department as a noun:
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
Examples:
"Technical things are not his department; he's a people person."
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Department as a noun (often, in proper names):
A subdivision of an organization. One of the principal divisions of executive government One of the divisions of instructions
Examples:
"the Treasury Department''; ''the Department of Agriculture''; ''police department"
"the physics department''; ''the gender studies department"
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Department as a noun:
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes. In France, a department is smaller than a region
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Department as a noun (historical):
A military subdivision of a country
Examples:
"usex the Department of the Potomac"
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Department as a noun (obsolete):
Act of departing; departure.