What’s the difference between a college and university?

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Anonymous wrote:Its confusing when people say name of their residential college instead of commonly know university's name.

This only confuses people with shabby and inferior educations.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are there separate rankings?

How does a school like Williams or Swarthmore compare to Penn or NYU?

US News Best Colleges uses separate rankings for Liberal Arts Colleges and National Universities, but the wall Street Journal / Times Higher Education (WSJ/THE) rankings combine the two categories.

By splitting the rankings, US News allows small colleges to get their own stage and recognition.

The WSJ/THE combines the rankings because the primary focus on that ranking is outcomes based.

When combined by the Wall Street Journal / Times Higher Education ranking, private National Universities occupy the top 21 positions (#1 through #21).

Amherst College & Williams College & Pomona College & Swarthmore College are the top ranked LACs appearing at #22, #23, #25, and #29 respectively.

The top ranked public Nation University is #24 University of Michigan.

Penn is ranked at #12, while NYU is ranked at #26.

WSJ utilizes subjective survey data to assess schools. It's a sham ranking, just like Niche.

Exactly. "Resources" includes Research Papers per Faculty (8% of total score), so it's measuring a certain kind of faculty achievement and assuming that it benefits students. "Environment," only 10% of the total score, solely measures diversity (international students, different racial/ethnic groups, Pell grant recipients). That's great, but also what about other aspects of the campus environment?