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*** UsefulNotes/SoutheasternConferenceFootballPrograms: The largest and wealthiest college football conference.

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*** UsefulNotes/SoutheasternConferenceFootballPrograms: The largest and wealthiest and most intensely followed (though not largest) college football conference.
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**** UsefulNotes/SoutheasternConferenceFootballPrograms: The largest and wealthiest college football conference.
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* StarvingStudent: A poor student.

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* StrawmanU: Stereotypes associated with certain colleges and the people who attend them.



* StrawmanU: Stereotypes associated with certain colleges and the people who attend them.
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* StudentDebtPlot: College's expenses and expensiveness are used to motivate a story.

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** UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}}: A UsefulNotes page on the two most prestigious British universities, Oxford and Cambridge.



*** UsefulNotes/IvyLeague: A northeastern athletic league known for their academically elite member schools.
* DeanBitterman: The stereotypical nasty school principal but applicable to post secondary education.

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*** UsefulNotes/IvyLeague: A northeastern athletic league known for their its academically elite member schools.
* DeanBitterman: The stereotypical nasty school principal but applicable to post secondary postsecondary education.



* EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain: Smart people went to well-known schools (usually UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} or the Ivy League).

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* EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain: Smart people went to well-known schools (usually UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxbridge or the Ivy League).
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* UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball: A UsefulNotes page about UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball played in colleges.
** UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootballConferences: The various athletic leagues American colleges play in.
*** UsefulNotes/PowerFiveConferences: The five most prestigious college football conferences and the schools that play in them.
*** UsefulNotes/GroupOfFiveConferences: The five next best conferences and the schools that play in them.
*** UsefulNotes/IvyLeague: A northeastern athletic league known for their academically elite member schools.
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The tertiary education system and the terms used to describe the process and degrees is different around the world. More information is available about the [[UsefulNotes/BritishUnis British university]] system.

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* UsefulNotes/BritishUnis: A UsefulNotes page on the British university system.


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* UsefulNotes/JapaneseUniversities: A UsefulNotes page on notable universities in Japan, and by extension universities commonly portrayed or mentioned in Japanese media.
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This includes undergraduate programs providing Bachelors degrees (B.A., B.Sc, etc), professional schools in law, medicine and so on (L.L.B, M.D., etc) programs providing Masters (M.A., M.Sc., etc) and doctoral degrees (Ph.D).

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This includes undergraduate programs providing Bachelors degrees (B.A., B.Sc, etc), professional schools in law, medicine and so on (L.L.(LL.B, M.D., etc) programs providing Masters (M.A., M.Sc., etc) and doctoral degrees (Ph.D).

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An index related to tropes centering around college and university, the time of life embodying [[EarlyAdulthoodIndex young adulthood]] and the late teens and early-mid 20s. College is the time where adolescents make the transition out of the compulsory school system and accumulate the education for specialized careers that they didn't get in high school.

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An index related to tropes centering around college and university, the time of life embodying [[EarlyAdulthoodIndex young adulthood]] and the late teens and early-mid 20s. College is the time where adolescents make the transition out of the compulsory school system and accumulate the get education for specialized careers that they didn't get goes beyond what is provided in high school.
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This includes undergraduate programs providing Bachelors degrees (B.A., B.Sc, etc), professional schools in law, medicine and so on (L.L.B, M.D., etc) programs providing Masters (M.A., M.Sc., etc) and doctoral degrees (Ph.D).
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* FiendishFraternity: Fraternities are horrible.
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* SinisterSororitySisters: College sororities and/or their members are terrible.
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An index related to tropes centering around college and university, the time of life embodying young adulthood and the late teens and early-mid 20s. College is the time where adolescents make the transition out of the compulsory school system and accumulate the education for specialized careers that they didn't get in high school.

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An index related to tropes centering around college and university, the time of life embodying [[EarlyAdulthoodIndex young adulthood adulthood]] and the late teens and early-mid 20s. College is the time where adolescents make the transition out of the compulsory school system and accumulate the education for specialized careers that they didn't get in high school.
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* ExperimentedInCollege: College students take advantage of their relative independence to explore same-sex relationships.

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* ExperimentedInCollege: College students take advantage of their relative independence to explore same-sex relationships.
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* ExperimentedInCollege: College students take advantage of their relative independence to explore same-sex relationships.
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* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: Non-Western characters who attended Western colleges and universities and comes to believe the West to be evil (or at least severely flawed).
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An index related to tropes centering around college and university, the time of life embodying young adulthood and the late teens and early-mid 20s. College is the time where adolescents make the transition out of the compulsory school system as accumulate the education needed to help them in life that they didn't get in high school.

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An index related to tropes centering around college and university, the time of life embodying young adulthood and the late teens and early-mid 20s. College is the time where adolescents make the transition out of the compulsory school system as and accumulate the education needed to help them in life for specialized careers that they didn't get in high school.
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An index related to tropes centering around college and university, the time of life embodying young adulthood and the late teens and early-mid 20s. College is the time where adolescents make the transition out of the compulsory school system as accumulate the education needed to help them in life that they didn't get in high school.

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* AllGuysWantSororityWomen: College girls have to join sororities to score guys.
* ArtisticLicenseUniversityAdmissions: When university admissions are portrayed inaccurately.
* CaliforniaUniversity: A fictional university used to retain a high school series' main cast.
* CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2: College settings hardly differ from high school.
* CollegeRadio: Radio stations run in college, by college students.
* CollegeWidow: A local widow in a college town whom the university students are attracted to.
* DeanBitterman: The stereotypical nasty school principal but applicable to post secondary education.
* ADegreeInUseless: A person has few job opportunities or applications for their major.
* EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain: Smart people went to well-known schools (usually UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} or the Ivy League).
* {{Fratbro}}: College boys known for partying, stupid stunts, and loutish behavior.
* HigherEducationIsForWomen: Female characters are more likely to pursue university or postgraduate education than male ones.
* IMinoredInTropology: A character is revealed to be educated in an unexpected field.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Apparently, in fiction everyone with a degree went to an elite university.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [=PhDs=] are dangerous.
* MRSDegree: A woman goes to college to secure a husband.
* PhonyDegree: A character fakes a diploma.
* StrawmanU: Stereotypes associated with certain colleges and the people who attend them.
* WackyCollege: Plenty of exciting events happen on this college campus.
* WackyFratBoyHijinx: Frat boys getting involved in wild events, played for laughs.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: A college or postgraduate degree from a foreign country isn't considered useful or valuable.
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