From the dictionary: a. the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school. b. one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university. c. the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.

Hello Irina There is a big difference faculty = power eg : She has good psychology faculty... Department = section eg : There is a department of Psychology in this hospital. Hope you understand...

a faculty = факультет a department = кафедра На факультете психологий имеются след. кафедры: кафедра английского языка, кафедра общей психологий,кафедра детской психологий, кафедра психоанализа, кафедра самоанализа)) ... з.ы. у меня в универе писали почему-то department вместо первого

Hello Irina, Yes, faculty is more of a department of learning (from latin facultas) within a university. There could be in one university faculty of art , engineering faculty etc.... If you say Faculty of psychology or Psychology Faculty then it is a college within the university dedicated mainly to a certain branch of knowledge ( psychology in your example). A department of psychology will be in a university as well but as a subdivision of learning ,like physics is a department of science ,psychology could be a department of more general branch such as medicine. So it could be possibly presented in the following hierarchy : The psychology department in the Faculty of medicine in Boston University. Hence psychology could be taught as a separate branch of knowledge (faculty of psychology ) or as a subdivision of another more general science(department of psychology)

Faculty (university), a division of a university or the academic staff of a university . A department is a part of a larger organization with a specific responsibility. For the division of organizations into departments cowboy...