If you are used to a Mac, I would go with that for a host of reasons. But first and foremost, is the quality of customer service from Apple IF anything should happen to it while in college.
My daughter had her roommate kick her Macbook Pro off of the top bunk and across the dormroom. Screen shattered, case shattered, keyboard broke. And it was OFF of warranty. We took it to the Apple store in Indy. They charged us $300 to rebuild it all, her data all intact, and she had it the next day...DELIVERED to her dorm.
I have been working in IT since the early 1990s. I am fluent in All flavors of Windows, MAC, and Linux. My current position is a Dell only shop. After working with them now for 3 years, I would never buy a Dell. I have seen far too many new machines fail.
Ignore the University and throw VMWare on it, or even Crossover from Codewavers. Both are very easy to use. And worse case, you can always activate bootcamp and toss Windows 10 Home on it.
Now, IF you buy an Apple product, buy it from the REFURB store. Apple puts the SAME warranty on refurbs as on new, and you will save yourself some serious money.
I have a PC at work, an PC at home for gaming, but my workhorse machine is my Macbook Pro. I don’t like having to fix my own stuff.
THAT is Customer SERVICE!
We have an iMac out in the shop here at the farm. It gets all kinds of abuse I’m sure from dust to heat and all manner of metal grinding dust from the welding area across the shop. It keeps on ticking. We do keep it sort of covered most of the time with an old sheet my wife sewed into a neat little cover. Maybe a PC could survive but the Mac does.