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A ''University college'' is an institution (public or private) providing tertiary education at the level of undergraduate degrees but which does not have full university status and powers, for example to award postgraduate degrees in its own name. It normally does not do research, but this depends on the country context - in the [[UK]] many do carry out research. In the UK if an institution calls itself a "University College", we would categorise it | A ''University college'' is an institution (public or private) providing tertiary education at the level of undergraduate degrees but which does not have full university status and powers, for example to award postgraduate degrees in its own name. It normally does not do research, but this depends on the country context - in the [[UK]] many do carry out research. In the UK if an institution calls itself a "University College", we would categorise it under '''University colleges'''. | ||
For a fuller discussion see the Wikipedia article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_college University college]. | For a fuller discussion see the Wikipedia article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_college University college]. | ||
There are also specific institutions called [[University College]] - some are [[universities]]. | |||
Latest revision as of 11:07, 5 June 2009
A University college is an institution (public or private) providing tertiary education at the level of undergraduate degrees but which does not have full university status and powers, for example to award postgraduate degrees in its own name. It normally does not do research, but this depends on the country context - in the UK many do carry out research. In the UK if an institution calls itself a "University College", we would categorise it under University colleges.
For a fuller discussion see the Wikipedia article on University college.
There are also specific institutions called University College - some are universities.
University colleges
There is an automatically maintained list of these at Category:University colleges. This has currently (June 2009) around 20 entries but is still growing - and there are some issues of categorisation.
See also Category:Universities and Category:Colleges.