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gregchang35|1390516805|3599737 said:We don't have college so most will go to a technical school or a university. Majority of these tertiary institutions are subsidized by the govt. Courses are changing and some professional degrees are now post graduate degrees eg medicine/ law are now a post graduate degree in Western Australia. Similar to the USA where u go to college and then university, however, in AUS, all of this type of education is in a university..
In the US, after you graduate high school, if you want to continue your options are either a junior/community college (2 year program), technical school, or a 4-year college/university. College and university are used interchangeably for a 4 year degree program. I think there used to be a difference between the two (IIRC, a college only offered undergraduate degree while a university offered advanced degrees), but there are now plenty of "colleges" that offer advanced degrees. College is used as the general term- most people will say "where are you going to college?" rather than "university." Hopefully that all made sense.