The word for college in French is collège, and it is a masculine noun. In French, all nouns are assigned a gender, either masculine or feminine, and this affects how they are used in sentences. You can tell that collège is masculine because it typically uses the masculine articles and adjectives. For example, you would say le collège for ‘the college’ and un collège for ‘a college.’
This assignment of gender can sometimes be surprising for English speakers, where nouns do not have a gender. It’s important to remember the gender of the noun as it affects the structure of the sentence and agreement with adjectives. In general, when learning new vocabulary in French, it’s beneficial to memorize the gender along with the noun to use it correctly in conversation and writing.