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cluster college

American  

noun

  1. a small residential college affiliated with a university but semi-independent and specializing in one field of study.

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One approach is the "cluster" college patterned after Oxbridge colleges—autonomous units linked for services but with their own special areas of study.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most major universities are working on ways to create those neighborhoods, such as "the cluster college" pattern of California's Santa Cruz campus, the "living-learning" units at Michigan State, and Meyerson's attempt to create "centers of identification" at Buffalo.

From Time Magazine Archive

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