In the United Kingdom, a collegiate university is a university whose functions are divided between the central departments of the university and a number of colleges. A collegiate university differs from a centralised university in that its colleges are not mere halls of residence, but have substantial responsibility and autonomy in the running of the university (that form of organization is commonplace in the USA). Collegiate universities in the United Kingdom range from a loose confederation of colleges such as the University of London, where the central university does little more than setting syllabuses for a number of practically independent colleges, to more centralised universities like the University of Durham, where the colleges are no longer involved in teaching. In between are the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where both the universities and colleges are involved in the teaching of students.