In the United States, these are schools which provide training to adults that generally does not lead to a college degree. The adults can be high school or college graduates. The idea is to get enough training in a particular field in order to be "certified" in that field and get a job typical to the field. Graduates get a certificate or diploma, but, unlike a college degree, the course credits will not count towards a similar course of study at another school. In some cases, this is a division of a regular college or university that offers "alternative adult education" or "tertiary education" through the university college. They compete with other schools that do not call themselves university colleges. As a group, university colleges and their competitors are called "for profit schools" in the USA.