Is Uni significantly harder than college?

I'm currently studying an access course with an online distance learning college and I have to do all the work myself, I'm not spoon fed the answers or given easier explanations of the questions. I've probably done 95% of the work all by my self without having to ask for my tutor's help and so far I have received one merit the rest are distinctions so I'm doing pretty well with minimal help, will Uni be the same or even harder?

I'm really worried about the work being really hard at Uni even though I'm doing really well at my access course all by myself.

Another big issue is the culture change. You generally have 3/4 types of people:

The religious/socially retarded/generally very dull people (Group A):

Group A stick to themselves, get the work done and will generally be the ones pushing for the first. Having said that they will only leave university with other very dull friends

The "cool kids": better known as the kids who had next to no freedom at home and as a consequence go ape **** wild at any opportunity. (Group b):

Many of group Bs occupants were in fact group A children at school due to the fact their parents held them back. All of a sudden they have some freedoms and don't know how to handle them. These will be the kids that are constantly in your face and everyone's letting you and anyone else within the blast radius of a nuclear bomb, aware of their weekend or their latest booze fuelled interference with a member of the opposite sexes clothing. These people tend to far underachieve at university.

Type c are the kids who really just aren't too bothered and had freedom when they were younger. Generally they've done fine at school and just aren't too interested in university as they've been in front of books for the last 14 years of their life and now have 3 more to do. Classic 2:1 student who goes out every now and then but has an eye on their studies.

Then we have type D: The juggler. The juggler is a rare species who tries to appeal to everyone. They will go to lectures whilst claiming they have done nothing. They will go out and get smashed and sit with the boring people in lectures, they will get a first and tell everyone they did no work. If you can work a juggler, you can not turn up to Uni and do well. Network with this person because generally they are exceptionally intelligent and will give you all their notes/fill you in on exam guidance whilst in the pub.

There's one more type. Type E. The Morphers. These are like type a but were held back by social constraints at school rather than parents who would have wanted them to be popular. Generally you can be unpopular at school for something that happened when young and you've been pigeonholed a loser ever since. All of a sudden these people are popular. These are the people most likely to fail at Uni. All of a sudden people want to talk to them... All of a sudden they don't care about work.

So OP it all depends. Who are you?

Another big issue is the culture change. You generally have 3/4 types of people:

The religious/socially retarded/generally very dull people (Group A):

Group A stick to themselves, get the work done and will generally be the ones pushing for the first. Having said that they will only leave university with other very dull friends

The "cool kids": better known as the kids who had next to no freedom at home and as a consequence go ape **** wild at any opportunity. (Group b):

Many of group Bs occupants were in fact group A children at school due to the fact their parents held them back. All of a sudden they have some freedoms and don't know how to handle them. These will be the kids that are constantly in your face and everyone's letting you and anyone else within the blast radius of a nuclear bomb, aware of their weekend or their latest booze fuelled interference with a member of the opposite sexes clothing. These people tend to far underachieve at university.

Type c are the kids who really just aren't too bothered and had freedom when they were younger. Generally they've done fine at school and just aren't too interested in university as they've been in front of books for the last 14 years of their life and now have 3 more to do. Classic 2:1 student who goes out every now and then but has an eye on their studies.

Then we have type D: The juggler. The juggler is a rare species who tries to appeal to everyone. They will go to lectures whilst claiming they have done nothing. They will go out and get smashed and sit with the boring people in lectures, they will get a first and tell everyone they did no work. If you can work a juggler, you can not turn up to Uni and do well. Network with this person because generally they are exceptionally intelligent and will give you all their notes/fill you in on exam guidance whilst in the pub.

There's one more type. Type E. The Morphers. These are like type a but were held back by social constraints at school rather than parents who would have wanted them to be popular. Generally you can be unpopular at school for something that happened when young and you've been pigeonholed a loser ever since. All of a sudden these people are popular. These are the people most likely to fail at Uni. All of a sudden people want to talk to them... All of a sudden they don't care about work.

So OP it all depends. Who are you?

Which are you

It depends on where you go. If you go to a university near the top of the table (Oxbridge, etc.) then yes it is significantly harder. If you're going somewhere middling, it's about the same, and near the bottom, significantly easier.

It has nothing to do with how low or high up the table your uni is as someone above suggested though, it's purely down to you.

It is not 'down to you' how much work you have to do. That just doesn't make any sense. If you go to unis with harder courses, you need to learn and understand more content, and therefore work harder. There is no-one who finds way more work 'easier'. Not if we're working on any sensible definition of 'difficulty'.