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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 02:08:12 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   In Sweden, higher education is split into "school of higher education" ("högskola") and "university" ("universitet").

   To become a university, a school of higher education must perform a certain amount of research rather than just teaching, and depending on the subject, a school of higher education might only be allowed to award bachelor's degrees, whereas a university can award master's degrees and doctorates.

   In English communications, most of these institutions call themselves a "university", regardless of whether they are an "universitet" in the Swedish system.

   Is there any distinction like this in the UK or US systems? Is there a shorthand for expressing something similar to this distinction in English?

   I know the US has some community colleges that don't call themselves universities, but I don't know if that's anything more than an informal prestige thing or if there is an actual difference in services? And then there are a bunch of places that call themselves "university" but don't seem very serious at all, so I guess it's not a protected title?

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 03:08:42 EST lnxw48a1

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      I can't say for sure what the difference is, because in the US most four-year colleges tend to perform research as well as teach and most universities seem to focus more on research than teaching. I do remember when when the California State College system became the California State University, they had to do lots of work ... including having a certain number of PhD faculty.
      
      I do know that one company brought in interns from both my CSU campus and its nearby UC (University of California) campus. Originally, the UC student interns were placed in supervisory positions ... the thought being they knew more about business and marketing than the CSU students. After a semester, the roles were switched because the UC students were more focused on research than on practice.
      
      (It was a matter for bragging rights that the business school on our CSU campus was AACSB accredited before the business school on the nearby UC campus, back when it was capped at the top 15% of business schools in the country.)
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 03:16:17 EST lnxw48a1

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      @clacke When I first saw "högskola" I thought "hog school" ... false cognates. :-)
      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 04:29:00 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Hehe, "high" is the true cognate to "hög".

         American "high school", secondary school, years 10–12, is "gymnasium" in Swedish, for weird reasons I haven't looked into for a while and forgot. So that's why the term "high school" is still available for tertiary education.