A college is a wonderful.It is like a town or small city in several ways. One way is populatiin. In general, the population of a town is less than () 10,000 people. In the United States, many colleges and universities have several thousand students. For example, Pasadena City College, in California, has almost 30,000 students. Miami-Dade College, in Florida, has 174,000 students on eight campuses! In other ways, too, a modern college is like a small city.