Korean help

[dice336]

Any Korean speakers who can help me clarify the difference between 대학교 and 대학


Any help is greatly appreciated.

[emath]

Originally Posted by dice336

Any Korean speakers who can help me clarify the difference between 대학교 and 대학


Any help is greatly appreciated.

대학 means a university or a college.

More precisely, 종합 대학 means a university and 단과 대학 means a college.

대학교 means a university (only).

[dice336]

Thanks Emath.

[mclovin]

대학 is pretty much non-distinguishable (but more often used) than 대학교.

대학 is used to refer to a college OR university in common usage, they are interchangeable (it's shortened version of 대학교, which literally means "great learning institution" as opposed to 대학 which just means "great learning").

go for the short version