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College [fr. colligo, Lat., to bring to], a corporation, company, or society of men, having certain privileges and endowed with certain revenues, founded by royal license. An assemblage of several collages is called a University.

'College' means a college maintained by, or admitted to the privileges of, the University. [Mizoram University Act, (8 of 2000), s. 2(e); (58 of 1994), s. 2(f)]

An assembly of people, established by law to perform some special function or to promote some common purpose, vsu. of an educational, political, ecclesiastical, or scientific nature, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 258.

Means a college or teaching institutions other than a University established or maintained by a person or group of persons from amongst a minority community. [National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, 2004 (2 of 2005) s. 2(b)

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