Institutional vs College - What's the difference?
institutional | college |
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
Instituted by authority.
Elementary; rudimentary.
(Webster 1913)
(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
(politics) An electoral college.
An academic institution.
An institution of higher education.
(US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
(attributively, chiefly, US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
(Canada) A postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees, instead offering vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
(chiefly, UK) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
(US, New Zealand) A specialized division of a university.
(UK, in the names of private schools) A secondary school.
(UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level (in the UK, typically teaching those aged 16 to 19); sixth form.
(New Zealand) A high school or secondary school.
(UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
(Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, which may be independent or have its own tutors but is not involved in teaching.
As an adjective institutional
is of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.As a noun college is
a corporate group; a group of colleagues.institutional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)college
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(wikipedia college)Noun
(en noun)- College''' of Cardinals'', '''''College of Surgeons
- These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
- Pembroke College''', Cambridge''; ''Balliol '''College''', Oxford''; ''University '''College , London
- College of Engineering
- Eton College