When the word Faculty is spelled with a capital 'F' (i.e. Faculty of Health, Faculty of Education), it refers to an academic unit of the University.

There are 11 Faculties at York (see Our Faculties):

• School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
• Glendon College
• Faculty of Graduate Studies
• Faculty of Health
• Lassonde School of Engineering
• Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
• Osgoode Hall Law School
• Schulich School of Business
• Faculty of Science

When spelled with a lowercase 'f' (i.e. faculty), it is another word for professor, and the closely related term university scholar.