The life journey of a person starts from lap of mother and then school becomes its first institution that grooms its personality. After that, there is a college and university to enlighten the further abilities of that person. Office becomes its final destination, where he utilizes all the knowledge that he gets from school, college and university. The school, college or university life is not just important because of getting education from these institutes. There are many other interesting facts that are related to these educational instates. The thing to consider is that, who highlighted these funny facts about school, colleges and universities. I am here to perform this task. So, don’t go anywhere and read these funny facts about your beloved school, college or university. I am sure that these facts will be really a great source of fun for you and the base use of free time as well.

1. In the United States, there is little difference between the terms “college” and “university.” However, the term “college” in other countries, such as Canada, refers to a junior college or trade college, where as a “university” is larger, more research focused, and usually contains multiple colleges. 

2. The term “college” is from the Latin collegium meaning “community, society, guild” and, literally, “association of college”. It was first used to describe an academic institution in the late fourteenth century in relation to Oxford and Cambridge. 

3. “University” is a shortening of the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium or “a community of masters and scholars.

4. Yale selects a freshman class of 1,300 from nearly 20,000 applications each year.

5. Oberlin College was the first college to grant degrees to women in 1841. It was also the first college to grant a bachelor’s degree to an African-American woman in 1862

6. The first college established for African-American students was the Ashmun Institute on April 29, 1854. It was named after Jehudi Ashmun (1794-1828) an American ,minister who helped establish Liberia. In 1866, Ashmun Institute was renamed Lincoln University.

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