The phrase "a string of colleges" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a series or group of colleges, often in the context of discussing education or academic institutions.
Example: "She applied to a string of colleges across the country to increase her chances of acceptance."
Alternatives: "a series of colleges" or "a chain of colleges".
Dr. Donald Lunde, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of "Murder and Madness," interviewed Edmund Kemper, who murdered his mother and a string of college women in Santa Cruz, Calif., in the 1970's.
Normally, analyzing racism, inequality, involuntary servitude, prison systems and police brutality is such a vast endeavor it would take a collection of books, a string of college courses or a PBS miniseries to begin to understand such complex subjects and their many ramifications.
Officials at the Alamo Colleges, a string of community colleges around San Antonio, were particularly outspoken because an employee of one of the schools, North East Lake View, was shot and killed in 2008 by another employee who had a concealed handgun license.
In fact, Emory is the latest in a string of American colleges and universities that have recently been forced to confess to obscuring or ignoring the rules when it comes to reporting data about their schools.
Oh, God, it's happening again, he panicked: His former employers -- the ones who had fired him from a string of universities and colleges -- would be cackling at his misfortune, happy they'd driven him out.
The student loan debts cleared by Rolling Jubilee were for students from Everest Colleges, a string of institutions owned by Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit education company.
The smallish Mosley had a string of injuries in college.
So says the latest in a string of damaging accounts of college hazing at Dartmouth by Andrew Lohse '12, a student at the New Hampshire Ivy League school, in a soon-to-be-published op-ed in Dartmouth's The D. Gawker scooped the story and has yet to verify the authenticity of the op-ed, but there have been other op-eds by Lohse which have stirred up controversy in the college ranks.
That accident is the latest in a string of similar mishaps, prompting college athletic directors across the country to take a hard look at their transportation policies.
Malcolm Layfield, head of strings at the RNCM, is being investigated by police over sexual relationships he initiated with a string of pupils at the college as well as Chetham's school of music in Manchester and the Wells Cathedral School in Somerset, the Guardian understands.
