subfaculty

noun

sub·fac·ul·ty | \ ˌsəb-ˈfa-kəl-tē

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variants: or sub-faculty

plural subfaculties or sub-faculties

Definition of subfaculty

: a subdivision of a faculty … the various faculties and subfaculties into which the university was, and is, divided: the faculties of letters, social sciences, law, mathematics and natural sciences, medicine, and so forth; and the subfaculties within these faculties, such as political science and sociology in the social sciences, and the subfaculty of history in the faculty of letters.— Arend Lijphart

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