{"id":689,"date":"2012-02-02T23:16:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymajors.com\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2020-12-15T19:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:28:05","slug":"type-of-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/type-of-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Type of Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different types of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/college-search-by-major\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colleges<\/a> in the U.S., and it can be confusing as a student to understand the differences between them and find out which is best for you.\u00a0 We have put together a simple guide to differentiate between the main types of colleges, universities, and career colleges:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Types of Colleges in the U.S. <\/strong>&#8211; Search for <a title=\"College Search Tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/college-search-by-major\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colleges Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Private 4-Year and 2-Year<\/li>\n<li>Earn a Bachelor\u2019s Degree or Higher<\/li>\n<li>Study wide range of courses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These colleges offer a broad base of courses in the liberal arts \u2014 literature, philosophy, history, languages, mathematics, humanities, and social and natural sciences. They typically offer four-year programs that lead to a bachelor\u2019s degree; students usually take courses in a range of subjects during their first two years and then choose a major. These colleges prepare you for a variety of careers, as well as for graduate work in many fields, including professions such as law, medicine and business.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Universities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public and Private 4-Year<\/li>\n<li>Earn a Bachelor\u2019s, Master\u2019s, and Doctoral Degrees<\/li>\n<li>Larger and offer more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/list-of-college-majors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">majors<\/a> and degree options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Universities may offer more majors than Liberal Art Colleges such as engineering, architecture, health and other programs. At most universities, you can earn bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctoral degrees. Most universities contain several smaller colleges; for example, colleges of agriculture, teaching, and liberal arts. You may have to apply to a specific college within the university and take most of your classes within that college. At a university, you can prepare for many types of careers or for further study in graduate school.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Community Colleges<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2-Year College<\/li>\n<li>Earn an Associate\u2019s Degree<\/li>\n<li>Affordable, prepare you for career or 4-Year institution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These colleges prepare you to continue your education or to enter the workforce immediately. They offer associate degrees and certificate of completion, which get you ready to transfer to a four-year college and earn a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<p>Community colleges are often an affordable and convenient option; they charge relatively low tuition to in-state residents. Many students can also save money by living at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Career Colleges<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> or Vo-Tech<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Career focused, not required to take Gen-Ed courses<\/li>\n<li>Earn an Certificate of Completion or Associates Degree<\/li>\n<li>Career readiness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A vo-tech or career college offers specialized training to students who are interested in a particular industry or career. You take classes only in your field of study \u2014 for example, culinary arts, firefighting, dental hygiene or medical-records technology.<\/p>\n<p>Student Population by College Type<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-Student-Demographics-by-College-Type.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-690\" title=\"2011 Student Demographics by College Type\" src=\"http:\/\/mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-Student-Demographics-by-College-Type.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-Student-Demographics-by-College-Type.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-Student-Demographics-by-College-Type-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-Student-Demographics-by-College-Type-303x200.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*data pulled from The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac Issue 2011-2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different types of colleges in the U.S., and it can be confusing as a student to understand the differences between them and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118,117,116,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-search","category-majors-careers","category-military","category-student-bloggers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-Student-Demographics-by-College-Type.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7JFoP-b7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}