Difference between college and institute.

The most popular educational institutions are colleges and institutes. What is the specificity of both?

What are the features of the college?

Under college can be understood:

  1. in Russia - a secondary educational institution, which trains specialists mainly in the humanities, mainly in theoretical programs;
  2. in Western countries - a secondary or higher educational institution, which can train specialists in both the humanitarian and technical fields in various programs.

The Russian college is a fairly new type of educational institution. In the USSR, they were practically not established. The most common specialties in modern Russian colleges include such specialties as manager, banker, accountant, lawyer.

In a Russian college, as a rule, you can enter both after the 9th and after the end of the 11th grade. In the first case, training usually lasts 4 years, in the second - 2. A college graduation diploma in most cases gives a person the right to immediately go to work in the received specialty.

College

Studying at a Russian college is very similar to studying at a university. Students of the corresponding institution have the status of students, they have student cards, test books. It often happens that university specialists teach in college. Students who listened to their lectures can subsequently continue their studies with them, but already at a higher educational institution.

In the West, colleges are divided into 3 main types.

First, these are higher educational institutions - they can be structural subdivisions of higher educational institutions or be independent institutions. Secondly, these are colleges that offer programs similar to those taught in high school. Thirdly, there are institutions that occupy an intermediate position between the first and second educational institutions.

What are the features of the institution?

Under institute, both in Russia and abroad, it is customary to mean a higher educational institution. Back in the USSR, they belonged to the most widespread types of universities. In principle, there are quite a few institutions in modern Russia.

Most universities of the corresponding type train specialists of a rather narrow profile. For example, there are architectural, pedagogical, economic institutes. It is not difficult to determine the professions for which they teach in the respective educational institutions. But there are also multidisciplinary institutes, such as, for example, MGIMO.

Institute

Many institutions in the West are also multidisciplinary, but often unidirectional. For example, in technological institutes in the United States, as a rule, they train specialists of various professions, but their programs are designed so that graduates can subsequently apply their knowledge in a particular technical field.

Comparison

There is certainly more than one difference between college and institute. First of all, you need to decide on which educational system we are talking about - Russian or Western.

In the Russian Federation, a college is almost always a secondary educational institution. But the educational process in it is organized according to standards that are sufficiently close to those of higher educational institutions. You can enter a Russian college both after the 9th and after the end of the 11th grade. Russian institutions are institutions of higher education. They train specialists, as a rule, of a rather narrow profile.

In the West, a college in the status of an institution of higher education is not uncommon. But there are establishments of the corresponding type, which are average or occupy an intermediate position between them and the higher ones. Institutes in the West, as well as in the Russian Federation, are universities. They can train specialists in various professions, but, as a rule, according to programs of a single industry focus.

Having determined what is the difference between college and institute, we reflect the conclusions in the table.

Table

College Institute
What do they have in common?
In a Russian college, the educational process is similar to that of a higher educational institution: students are students, have student cards, record books
In the West, colleges like institutions can be classified as institutions of higher education
What is the difference between them?
In Russia it is almost always an institution of secondary education, in the West it can have a similar statusIn Russia and in the West it is almost always a university
In Russia, you can enter college after the 9th gradeYou can enter the Russian institute only after the 11th grade, in the western one - also after graduating from high school
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