# college (education)

a school where students receive higher education

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: general  ·  Arena: college

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [school](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-school.education), [students](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-students.group), [education](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-education.learning), [high](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-high.spatial), [receive](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-receive.communication)

**Through:** students are in a school to receive higher education

**Novel properties:**
- advanced curriculum
- degree granting
- formal credentialing

## Examples
- Harvard University admitted its first students in 1636 to study theology, law, and classical languages in Cambridge, Massachusetts. *(institutions)*
- The Open University in the UK delivered its first distance-learning courses to 24,000 students in 1971 via BBC broadcasts. *(education)*
- IIT Bombay began offering undergraduate engineering degrees in 1958, funded by the Indian government and Soviet technical aid. *(engineering)*

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