What are the differences between escuela,universidad,colegio and instituto?
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What are the differences between escuela,universidad,colegio and instituto?
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updated Nov 30, 2010
posted by zhmelissa
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In Spain, the words colegio and escuela are used for primary education (and other uses, like "colegio de médicos", "escuela de Bellas Artes"), instituto for secondary education, and after that you get universidad, which is university.
updated Nov 9, 2013
posted by lazarus1907
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In Ecuador, escuela is elementary school, colegio is high school, universidad is university, and escuela posgrado is grad school. I've been past institutos on the bus and they seem to be specialized training schools.
I teach high school students and they were indignant when I used the word escuela 
updated Nov 9, 2013
posted by lorenzo9
