Editing College (section)

===Higher education===
[[File:Strand102.jpg|thumb|upright|[[King's College London]], established by a [[Royal charter|Royal Charter]] in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the [[University of London]].]]
Within higher education, the term can be used to refer to:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/college_1|title=college noun (EDUCATION)|work=Cambridge Dictionary Online|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904005447/http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/college_1|archive-date=4 September 2011}}</ref> 
* A constituent part of a [[collegiate university]], for example [[King's College, Cambridge]], or of a federal university, for example [[King's College London]].
* A [[liberal arts college]], an independent institution of higher education focusing on undergraduate education, such as [[Williams College]] or [[Amherst College]].
* A liberal arts division of a university whose undergraduate program does not otherwise follow a liberal arts model, such as the [[Yuanpei College]] at [[Peking University]].
* An [[institute]] providing specialised training, such as a college of [[further education]], for example [[Belfast Metropolitan College]], a teacher training college, or an art college.
* A [[Catholic higher education]] institute which includes universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher education privately run by the Catholic Church, typically by religious institutes. Those tied to the Holy See are specifically called pontifical universities.
* In the [[United States]], college is sometimes but rarely a synonym for a research university, such as [[Dartmouth College]], one of the eight universities in the [[Ivy League]].
* In the [[United States]], the undergraduate college of a university which also confers graduate degrees, such as [[Yale College]], the undergraduate college within [[Yale University]].