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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The first known use of subfaculty was in 1871
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