College vs. Campus — What's the Difference?

A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school.

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a college campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls, student centers or dining halls, and park-like settings.

An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.

The grounds and buildings of an institution, especially a college or other institution of learning, a hospital, or a corporation.

An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field or group of fields.

The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

A junior or community college.

An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject

To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.

The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions

(climbing) To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.

The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located

The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.

A college or university.

An institution for secondary education in France and certain other countries that is not supported by the state.

A division of a university with its own buildings and a separate faculty, especially one separated geographically from other divisiona, but sharing top administration with other units of the university; as, the Newark campus of Rutgers.

A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties

Higher education considered as a whole; as, the financial effects of research cutbacks on the campus.

An electoral college.

A business site with pleasant landscaping; as, the Squibb research campus at Princeton.

A body of clerics living together on an endowment.

A field on which the buildings of a university are situated

(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.

(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.

(politics) An electoral college.

An academic institution.

A specialized division of a university.

An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.

A university.

(Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.

A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.

(UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.

(UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).

A high school or secondary school.

(Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.

(Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.

(Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.

(in Chile) A bilingual school.

A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.

Fig.: A community.

The body of faculty and students of a college

An institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

British slang for prison

A complex of buildings in which a college is housed