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^^^ Typically, that is the case. The individual colleges/schools are subsidiary units of the university. The state university where I am a professor has 25,000 students, with colleges that offer undergraduate and graduate degrees. My daughter's alma mater, Washington and Lee University, only has 1,800 undergraduates, but they have a College and a business school and a law school.
I don't know if this is regulated by the Higher Learning Commission, like Carnegie research designations (R1 institutions are big research-focused universities).
As for the various online, for-profit "institutions" -- who knows what dictates their actions, besides the desire to turn a profit. Maybe they think "university" sounds better.
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