What’s in a Name? An Enrollment Increase, When a College Becomes a University

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I remember back in my college years (early 90’s) being told universities have graduate degrees, colleges don’t.  That seemed true because that truly did reflect the differences within the area.   Each of the colleges eventually changed their names to university once they added graduate programs.  Since then, I have seen otherwise…. So now I am confused again. LOL

My favorite example is Boston College.  They have a number of grad programs, including doctoral degrees
https://www.bc.edu/
Of course, they couldn't change their name, even if they wanted to, because there's already a Boston University
https://www.bu.edu/