Is an American college the same as a British university?

i think the two systems are quite different.

I'd say that whole stereotype of it only being the posh kids who go on Gap Years isn't as true as it used to be. At the college I go to quite a few people are planning Gap Years and are going travelling or doing volunteer work, they didn't attend private school or anything. Saying that though some of them are going around the world but I think those are the private school kids.

My sister did a gap year. We're from Brixton, South London so I definitely wouldn't call ourselves "public school toffs" She used that gap year to gain work experience.

I'd just like to point out that not that many people have gap years, the only people I've known to have gap years are the ones that didn't get their grades for uni and so had to resit exams and defer their entry for a year.

And I am certainly not a toff

The difference between College and university education is the level of study, College offers courses of level 2 and 3 but up to level 4 (diploma), whereas University offers courses at level 5 (degree) Rarely do you get degree courses at a College unless its affiliated with a University.

In America, don't you have a Major and a Minor in college? Like you don't have to decide straight away what your going to do, you can get credits?

Yes, in America we have majors and minors. You can be "undecided" for two years and just get your general education credits before you decide on a major. Minors, however, are optional. Some people choose to have a minor because we have to have so many elective credits to get a degree so a minor helps you get those credits.

For example, I'm going to major in psychology. I need 120 credits to get my undergraduate degree but only 84 of them are used for general education and my major. So I can minor in something else (like sociology) to get those remaining credits while still directing them towards a goal. You can also have a double major or a double minor.

Oh, there are many opinions.They are wonderful. In my viewpoint,time will help you develop and you will learn much from college or university.
College or university,it is only different from their names. In the different country, perhaps,it will stand for different ranks.

Academy school?


Well that's one way you'd get your a** kicked down here, if you called school that.

where i go to school is the "university of the west indies" and within it are several different faculties such as the j.f.k. school of social sciences, the imperial college of natural sciences etc.

similarly- alot of u.s. universities have colleges within them,

bottomline - a university is a big college or a group of colleges.

A-Levels stands for advanced levels. This is because at the end of high school wehave are gcse which stands for general certificate of secondary education. Another name for sixth form in Britain is college and that is why we get confused with the american school system because fir us college is a step stool to get to university. Does this help you at all.