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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I was just trying to make a silly aside to what I was talking about.
I thought that it would be silly because it seems to me that universities are large schools of higher education and colleges are small schools of higher education. So, in that way of thinking, a school can't be a college and a university at the same time. It is one or the other.
Yes, I know that universities often have colleges within them. Yours was a fine example. But when that is the case, the university is not the same as a college but the college is a subset of the university. Therefore, it can't be the same as the university.
Sometimes, and it seems to me to be most of the time, universities are not organized into colleges, but into departments. Sometimes, like in your example, some "colleges" are thrown in among the departments, for whatever reason.
I need to add "ha" or a smiling or laughing smiley consistently--all of the time--after my attempts to be funny, so people will know that they were intended to be funny, not serious.
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University College London is one of the best known and most prestigious British Universities. It's one of the world's leading research centres.
A number of British universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, are organised as chiefly independent colleges under the umbrella of an overall university. The university of London is among them, and comprises 18 separate colleges, one of which is UCL.