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I'm trying to be more concise with my words. Does writing "inter- disciplinary/national" to describe to my educational background make sense? If not, what's a good alternative?

Ahmad
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    Nope. Doing that would just draw attention to your difficulties with English. And it's not really "more concise" -- conciseness is not about counting characters. – Hot Licks Aug 12 '17 at 12:20

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First off, to follow a hyphen with a space where it's supposed to be joined to a word is just wrong.

That said, your proposed use is not easy to make sense of because, while inter-disciplinary might be hyphenated due to the word's complexity, international is not.

What you are doing is juxtaposing inter-disciplinary with national, not international.

You might get away with explicitly indicating that national is intended as a suffix by using a hyphen with that word: inter-disciplinary/-national; but it's clunky and the diverse nature of the education is far better expressed by using both interdisciplinary and international in full.

Andrew Leach
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