College is tertiary education, ie university or similar. My understanding is that the distinction between college and university is an organizational one, not the curriculum. But I’m not from the US.
What you call middle school they call high school.
- 0 - 6 preschool
- 7 - 15 basic school (mandatory)
- 16 - 19 middle school
- 20+ university or polytechnique
And middle school generally divides into: a) 3 year of craft school, workforce after; or b) 4 years of general learning school, no craft knowledge after, expected to go to university after or be clerk, or ..., unspecified; or c) ~4 years technical school in specific craft with "qualified technik" diploma quasi low level "engineer" (have some knowledge to be responsible for things), maybe polytechnique after or uni
At unis typical degrees: master, phd, professor.
So where in such schema collage is located ?