WordNet
n. a school for teaching the clerical aspects of business and commerce
Wikipedia
A business college is a school that provides education above the high school level but could not be compared to that of a traditional university or college. Unlike universities and even junior and community colleges, business colleges typically train the student for a specific vocational aspect, usually clerical tasks such as typing, stenography or simple bookkeeping.
The goal of a business college is not to provide a thorough education, as is the model of modern universities in the liberal arts fields but rather to provide training for a very specific task. Traditionally, credits earned at a business college do not transfer to other universities and students cannot earn a bachelor's degree, though an associate degree is usually offered.
Business colleges have been finding more competition coming from community colleges which provide both vocational as well as liberal arts classes and are often able to offer the classes at a lower rate of tuition. Business colleges should not be confused with business schools which typically offer a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program after a student has completed a bachelor's degree.
Business colleges are sometimes also called proprietary colleges, especially when they grant associate degrees or higher.
Usage examples of "business college".
A boy from a reliable Italian family but graduated from the top business college in America.
We will be buying you the crimson robe with black piping of the business college, and you will wear the white belt of a freshman.
This was how she felt on the infrequent occasions when she wondered what would happen to her if Eddie didn't want to go to Derry Business College or the University of Maine in Orono or Husson in Bangor so he could come home every day after his classes were done, what would happen if he met a girl, fell in love, wanted to get married.
He attended a small business college in Sedalia, Missouri, and then moved to Baldwin, Kansas, enrolling for a time at Baker University.
I started as a secretarial assistant straight out of business college.
Memory slid through her, the small-town Pennsylvania girlhood, the business college, her coming to New York four years ago to take a clerical job at the office of a family acquaintance.
That fits in with when she stopped answering the phone and showing up for classes at the business college.