Difference between CAMPUS and CORPERATE

CAMPUS:
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and
related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a college campus includes
libraries, lecture halls, residence halls, student centres or dining halls, and park-
like settings. The word campus has also been applied to European universities,
although most such institutions are characterized by ownership of individual
buildings in urban settings rather than park-like lawns in which buildings are
placed.

CORPORATE:
A corporation is a legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners.1
Corporations enjoy most of the rights and responsibilities that individuals
possess: they can enter contracts, loan and borrow money, sue and be sued, hire
employees, own assets, and pay taxes. Some refer to it as a "legal person." All
kinds of businesses around the world use corporations. While its exact legal
status varies somewhat from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, a corporation's most
important aspect is limited liability.

DIFFERENCES:
1. In student life, you are expected to be an individual
contributor (e.g., high CGPA, good at competitions)
2. In professional life, you are expected to be a team player (e.g.,
leading a team to success, being part of a massive project)
This switch is subtle but extremely hard because you need to be good at hard
skills (e.g., knowledge, analytical ability) for student life, but you need to be
good at soft skills (e.g., empathy, communication) for work life.

In student life, you can expect the mark or grades for the effort you have put
into your studies. It's completely straightforward and transparent.

Once into professional life, you cannot expect the same. Your work is subject to
manipulation, office politicking, depends upon the higher official's liking
towards you. Working like how a student studies with his book will never fetch
you the same fair result like in college or schools.
1. Life Style:
Young adults seem to believe that college life is filled with parties and typically
a laid-back lifestyle. They usually love dressing up themselves in cool and
following up the new trends and styles. Whereas in the corporate sector the
candidate should be a social expert in dressing. One should be dressing himself
only in formals or business casuals. He is mostly engrossed in daily routine
jobs, in terms of achieving something in life. It sounds good but running into
same track again n again sounds so boring and messed up thought. These two
life styles bring changes in many sets of our life.

2. Attitude:
Having the right attitude makes you successful everywhere. Students do what
they like and that creates a positive attitude in them. If there are pushed towards
something which they aren’t comfortable it can lead them to have a negative
attitude. Also, in the college, having an attitude makes you look cool and smart.
Campus life is open enough for every student to carry their own sets of attitudes
along with them.
Corporate life is something where you sing up a bond stating that “Yes, I will
carry a positive attitude along with team spirit and be careful with my words,
ideas and thoughts”. The transit of this changes the attitude from a student to an
employee such as he/she must be working only for the company and be engaged
in financially gain activities. So, I would like to advice that plan your transit in
such a way that your attitude is acceptable to others and would help you to
succeed in both the life. In a college life, having a straight attitude is acceptable
if you doing good in your field, but in a corporate life, an accommodating
attitude is more desirable.

3. Schedule:
Schedule of college life depends on our mood and the state of mind planned in
the morning. However, a corporate life schedule is simple and same every day.
Students gets a chance to plan and change them time by time in a day, and an
employee is already told what to do n what not to do in a day and he/she must
be working on that. College life is making up new friends and corporate is about
seeing only the red horned boss every day.

4. Vacations:
In 365 days of a year, more than 100 days are vacation days for a student.
However, in a corporate life there are approximately 15 to 20 days of leave and
another of sick leave of 5-6 days. A student can plan his vacations based on the
examination and student’s life is not so strict to have a break for fun. But a
corporate worker must plan his vacations according to the project schedule and
the leave policy granted by his company.

5. Spending Nature:
When you are a student, your spending nature depends on your family
background and the kind of friend’s circle you hang around. You do not plan for
the future as your Parents are like your ATM. You can always ask them
whenever required. You may have to temporarily plan for funds when you are
going out for an excursion or when you are buying gift for your friend.

As soon as you enter a corporate life, you will have to plan for everything. Your
spending nature will depend on your package. If you are at a high package and
you have a decent disposable income in your hand, you will tend to wander
away and become spendthrift. If you are at an average package, you will be
more careful in spending as you might feel comfortable in taking money from
your parents. However, in both the above cases you will plan your expenses as
you will have bills to pay. Your salary will be credited only at the month end
but your last date of bill payment will be scattered all over your calendar. Apart
from that, you will have to plan for the investment as you will need to submit
investment proof at the end of the financial year.

For an individual, starting to work in an organization is a unique and critically

important phase that requires a special perspective and strategy to be successful
as a fresher. Research suggests that the success of the transition period will have
a major impact on aspects like salary, advancement, job satisfaction, and ability
to have cordial relationships within the organization as well as on one’s own
feelings of success, accountability and commitment to the job.
Campus life and corporate life are fundamentally different. If one continues to
have same expectations from his employer as he/she had from the professors in
the campus, one will be highly disappointed and damage the career success as
the culture of education is so different from the organizational culture. So, we
need to bridge the gap.