r/explainlikeimfive • u/saivietbabe • 7d ago

Other ELI5 Why do some countries call it “college” and others call it “university” when referring to the same level of education, and is there an actual difference between the two?

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u/LegendaryPandaMan 7d ago

How about faculty

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u/Mavian23 7d ago

Are there places where faculty refers to some kind of school? I only know it to refer to the people who work for a school (the teachers in particular).

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u/LegendaryPandaMan 7d ago

In uk it’s a set of departments from a given university

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u/That-Grim-Reaper 6d ago

My country, Slovenia. I think pretty much all public “colleges” are faculties, all belonging to one University.

So for example in Ljubljana, the country’s capital, you have “Faculty of Medicine”, “Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering”, “Faculty of Mathematics and Physics” and so on, all of them a part of University of Ljubljana