This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Americans use the term "college students" to mean students either in colleges or universities. Not only that, Americans almost never say "going off to university" or "when I was in university." That sounds British. Instead, they say "going off to college" and "when I was in college."
College, university: what's the difference? We answer that this week in part three of our Foreign Student Series on American higher education.