There's a lot of misconceptions here. In America, "university" and "college" are just about interchangeable. Yes, "university" does tend to imply a larger scho

There's a lot of misconceptions here. In America, "university" and "college" are just about interchangeable. Yes, "university" does tend to imply a larger school and a school with a PhD program, with college implying the opposite, but this is not a rule and there are hundreds of exceptions. The only type of school that is exclusively called a "college" is the community college (small, local schools that only tend to serve a single city or county/province). But community colleges are widely agreed to be a big step below your typical college/university. "College" is sometimes used to refer to the undergraduate portion of a university. For example, there is Harvard University. But within Harvard University, undergraduates are actually members of "Harvard College," in exactly the sense that law students would be members of "Harvard Law School."