A college is an institution of education or a component part of one. A college can be a tertiary educational institution awarding a degree, a part of a collegiate or federal university, a vocational education institution, or a secondary school. A college may be a high school or secondary school in most of the world, a college of further education, a training institution granting commercial qualifications, a provider of higher education that does not have university status (often without its own degree-awarding powers), or an integral part of a university.
In America, a college offers undergraduate programs; it may be independent of the undergraduate program of a university. In the US, a college may also be a residential college. A college in francophone countries provides secondary education. Within higher education, the term can be used to refer to a constituent part of a college, such as King's College, Cambridge, an autonomous higher education institution focused on undergraduate education, a division of liberal arts of a university whose undergraduate curriculum does not otherwise follow a liberal model of Arts or an institution which offers specialized training. In England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, and the Caribbean, among others, a sixth form college or college of further education is an educational institution where students aged 16 to 19 usually study for advanced school-level qualifications such as A-levels, BTEC, HND, or its equivalent, and the International Baccalaureate Certificate, or school-level qualifications such as GCSEs.
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