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

  1. College as a noun (obsolete):

    A corporate group; a group of colleagues.

  2. College as a noun (in some proper nouns):

    A group sharing common purposes or goals.

    Examples:

    "College of Cardinals'', ''College of Surgeons"

  3. College as a noun (politics):

    An electoral college.

  4. College as a noun:

    An academic institution.

  5. College as a noun:

    A specialized division of a university.

    Examples:

    "College of Engineering"

  6. College as a noun (chiefly, US):

    An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.

  7. 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."

  8. College as a noun (Canada, Israel):

    A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.

  9. 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"

  10. College as a noun (UK):

    An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.

  11. College as a noun (UK):

    An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).

  12. College as a noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa):

    A high school or secondary school.

    Examples:

    "Eton College"

  13. College as a noun (Australia):

    A private (non-government) primary or high school.

  14. College as a noun (Australia):

    A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.

  15. College as a noun (in Chile):

    A bilingual school.

  1. Department as a noun:

    A part, portion, or subdivision.

  2. 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."

  3. 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"

  4. 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

  5. Department as a noun (historical):

    A military subdivision of a country

    Examples:

    "usex the Department of the Potomac"

  6. Department as a noun (obsolete):

    Act of departing; departure.

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