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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
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In the UK, "college" usually means what we would consider the latter half of high school (6th form, in the UK, typically for students 16-18 years old).
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That's not universally true. The two oldest universities in the UK, Oxford and Cambridge, are collegiate universities. You can't join the university as an undergraduate without joining one of the colleges. See
this. Durham also has colleges. The
University of London also has colleges but many of them are effectively universities in their own right.
I might ask someone, "Will you be in College when I visit Oxford next week?"
Note that some of the English public schools (not really "public" in the modern or American sense of being funded by the taxpayer) are known as "colleges". They are typically 13--18 schools.
For example,
Eton and
Winchester.