Collocations for "college"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "college" in context.
WordReference English Collocations © 2025
college
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [private, public] college
- US: a [technical, four-year, state, junior, community] college
- an [online, accredited] college
- UK: [a further, an adult] education college
- US: the (local) community college
- US: [medical, university, state, graduate] college
- [Jesus, Trinity, Harvard] College
- [Jesus] College, [Cambridge]
- applying to colleges
- got into college
- dropped out of college
- [finished, left] college (in May)
- US: graduated from college
- US: sent their [son, children] to the [state, best] college
- US: is (going) off to college
- US: [is going, went] to college in [Maryland]
- US: is [studying, teaching] at the College of [Maryland]
- US: never [went, got to go] to college
- US: never finished college
- the College of [Medicine, Art, Engineering] (at)
- UK: the College of [Accountants, Surgeons, Physicians]
- UK: the Royal College of [Physicians]
- [academies, private schools] and colleges
- college [football, sports]
- college [dorms, housing, dining, fees]
- college [students, girls, professors]
- [has, get] a college degree
- a [first, second] -year college student
- a college party
'college' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
American
- British
- ID
- academic
- accept
- actor
- admission
- advancement
- advertising
- advisor
- aid
- anthem
- app
- apply
- athlete
- athletic
- attendance
- badass
- baseball
- behavior
- biology
- brother
- business
- campus
- caretaker
- center
- chemistry
- child
- classmate
- coach
- collateral
- communication
- community
- complete
- course
- craft
- curriculum
- dean
- defer
- deferred
- degree
- deprived
- design
- don
- dropout
- economics
- educated
- education
- electronic
- enroll