intercollege

[ in-ter-kol-ij ]

adjective

1. intercollegiate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of intercollege¹

inter- + college

Example Sentences

Darcy Gray, a global remote sensing manager at the One Acre Fund who led the study while completing her master's degree at Penn State in the intercollege Ecology Graduate Program administered by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, said she conducted this study to help provide beekeepers with the locally specific information they need to make decisions about how to best manage their colonies to combat these high colony losses during the winter.

From Science Daily

Sean Bresnahan, corresponding author, doctoral candidate in the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, said that in addition to giving insight into bee behavior, the findings also show that which parent a bee inherits certain genes from can affect how those genes are expressed, something that is notoriously difficult to study in insects.

From Science Daily

As part of the new “Drug Awareness” policy, Hampden was hosting an intercollege tournament, in game-show format, which tested students’ knowledge about drugs and alcohol.

From Literature

Anderson was 274-94 at Central Missouri, a .743 winning percentage, and is among the top 10 in career winning percentage in Division II. He had the first three 30-win seasons in school history, won six Mid-American Intercollege Athletics Association titles and went to three Division II Final Fours.

From New York Times

And there will be much more intercollege cooperation, as neighboring schools share facilities and courses to avoid expensive and needless overlaps.

From Time Magazine Archive