Faculti

Faculti, the plural of facultate, is a term used in several European higher education systems to describe a major organizational unit within a university responsible for teaching and research in a broad field. In many Romanian universities, a faculty corresponds to a distinct field of study, such as Law, Medicine, Letters, Engineering, or Economics, and serves as the primary platform for degree programs and academic research in that field. Each faculty is typically headed by a dean and governed by a faculty council; it maintains its own administration, budget, and curricular oversight, while the central university administration handles overall policy, accreditation, and shared services.

Within a faculty, there are often multiple departments or chairs (catedre) that handle more specialized subjects and coordinate faculty teaching and research. Students enroll in programs offered by a faculty and complete requirements that may be common to a discipline at the faculty level, with some cross-faculty options in interdisciplinary programs. The precise structure and terminology can vary by country and institution; in some contexts "faculty" is used interchangeably with "school" or "college" and denotes a large academic unit rather than a subject area.

The concept reflects historical roots of universities organized around disciplines rather than modern college-college structure. Examples include the Faculty of Law at a national university or the Faculty of Engineering at a technical university.