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This is a college, not a university

ChristensenMJ recently reverted my edits that corrected this article where it labels this institution a "university." This is a college. It doesn't offer any graduate degrees, the traditional definition used in the United States for a university. Moreover, it's classified among "Baccalaureate Colleges: Diverse Fields" by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and ranked among "Regional Colleges West" by U.S. News & World Report.

The name of the institution does not determine what it is. Just as Dartmouth College is a university, BYU-Idaho is a college. ElKevbo (talk) 05:21, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thoughts, ElKevbo. It may be helpful to this discussion to provide for editors to provide reference points which state that an institution has to, or traditionally has been thought to have to, offer graduate programs as the sole criteria to be identified as a university. If one reviews this list, cited above for BYU-Idaho by U.S. News & World Report, it will identify many colleges and universities, including some which offer graduate degrees and some which do not. Although certainly not definitive, this article], also from U.S. News, tries to disaggregate the differences - including the idea that colleges are often smaller institutions, rather than one serving tens of thousands of students (which also by itself isn't a factor of determination). The thought here is primarily to note that saying an institution has to offer graduate programs in order to be identified as a university seems sparse in its parameter. ChristensenMJ (talk) 18:01, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fundamentally our own opinions don't matter very much but if you're curious then our university article discusses this, particularly in the "Classification" section. The important thing is that the authoritative sources that have examined this issue have clearly documented their classification of this institution as a college. ElKevbo (talk) 00:56, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]