<p>Monydad - it’s pretty common for different “colleges” (or “schools”, or even “departments” depending on how the administrative organization is denominated) of a University to have separate admissions staff and standards. I think that is particularly true for engineering, which is often a separate school within a University. Also, many colleges have separate dorms and even campuses for different sets of students, divided in different ways (shades of Hogwarts :)!) I guess the answer is that there’s numerous ways to organize an educational institution, and many of them are being utilized today. Trying to fit all of the different organizations into a handful of pigeonhole descriptions is going to be misleading. The are what they are.</p>