A collegiate university is a university in which functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges. Historically, the first collegiate university was the University of Paris and its first college was the Collège des Dix-Huit. The two principal forms are residential college universities, where the central university is responsible for teaching and colleges may deliver some teaching but are primarily residential communities, and federal universities where the central university has an administrative role and the colleges may be residential but are primarily teaching institutions. The larger colleges or campuses of federal universities, such as University College London and University of California, Berkeley, may be effectively universities in their own right and often have their own student unions.
Buildings of St John's College, Cambridge
King's College London
University College London
A building of the University of Mumbai
A college 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, a further education institution, or a secondary school.
Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England
Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States
Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018
King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London.
