The phrase "a decent college" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a college that is satisfactory or acceptable in quality, but not necessarily outstanding.
Example: "After researching various institutions, I decided to apply to a decent college that offers a strong program in my field of interest."
Alternatives: "a respectable college" or "a satisfactory college".
Some of the baseball that day had the crisp feel of a decent college game.
"Crazy U" is a chronicle of Mr. Ferguson's attempts to help place his son, who is 16 when this mini-odyssey begins, in a decent college.
The average college graduate will also pay taxes on that $600,000 that far exceed the cost of education at a decent college.
Does anyone doubt that a decent college basketball team today, whether predominantly black or white, would clobber the best pro team of 50 years ago?
Professional though the performance may have been, this was surely one of the lamest assemblages of symphonic favorites performed in New York this season, the kind of greatest-hits programming that a decent college orchestra couldn't get away with nowadays.
Good education and a good chance at getting into a decent college are powerful reasons for the vitality and growth of American suburbs over the past six decades.James Engell Chair Department of English Harvard University Cambridge, MassachusettsSIR – I worked for many years in Valencia, California, and was surprised by your description of it as "vaguely Mediterranean".
When I was sixty-three, a cheeseburger at a diner on Fifty-seventh Street cost $24.95, you could ride the Staten Island Ferry for free, and a kid could get a pretty decent college education for a quarter of a million dollars.
By Ian Frazier When I was sixty-three, a cheeseburger at a diner on Fifty-seventh Street cost $24.95, you could ride the Staten Island Ferry for free, and a kid could get a pretty decent college education for a quarter of a million dollars.
You understand, Siminov said, the lad will never be accepted at any decent college.
He runs a decent art college and a worthy foundation, which espouse his range of interests.
But one facet of the country that's relatively unknown to foreigners is how 9percentt of the population – or the roughly 17 million Brazilians between the ages of 15 through 19 – can get a decent, affordable college education.
