Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition at Albion College

What are the Student to Faculty Ratios Like at Albion?

Check out the information on class structures and faculty to get a feel for the academic life at Albion College.

Why Albion's Faculty Composition Matters to You

Use the student to faculty ratio, as well as the faculty composition to get an idea of how much attention you'll receive as an individual student at Albion College.

Above Average Student to Faculty Ratio

Albion College, with 11 students for every instructional faculty member, has more professors per student than the national average, which is 14 students for every one instructor. This student to faculty ratio is one of the standard metrics used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students, and therefore, the individualized attention or quality of instruction the student might receive.

Breakdown of Instructional Staff

The following table shows all the employees the school considers instructional, and therefore, part of the above student-to-faculty ratio. These include both those employees designated as either "primarily instructional" or as "instructional combined with research/public service". It does not include employees that have been identified by Albion College as primarily performing research or public service.

How Seriously Does This School Take Hiring Full-Time Teachers? Very Seriously

Albion College's utilization of full-time teaching staff ranks among the highest in the nation, with 89.0% of instructors employed full time.

Reliance on Part-Time Teachers is Way Below Average

At Albion College, only 11.0% of the teaching staff are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This use of adjuncts is far below the national average of 51.0%, which could be indicative of Albion College's commitment to building a strong, long-term instructional team.

Colleges often use part-time professors and adjuncts to teach courses, rather than full-time faculty. This hiring practice is primarily a way to save money amid increasingly tight budgets. However, it is a controversial practice with strong views on either side. We encourage you to understand this topic more deeply, and how the colleges you are interested in approach faculty hiring. It's your education and your money on the line. Make sure you know what you are getting for it.

Additional Information

• What is an Adjunct? An adjunct is a teacher that has either no contract or a very short term contract for a single semester or year. These teachers often instruct only a single class or two at a given college and may have teaching or non-teaching jobs elsewhere. The term 'adjunct' can be used very loosely in academia, and many schools classify these instructors differently. To account for this difference, we use the total number of part-time non-faculty and non-tenure track faculty to represent the count of adjuncts for the college or university.

No Graduate Programs

Many U.S. colleges utilize enrolled graduate assistants to help instructional faculty, however, as Albion College does not offer graduate degree programs, this practice is not applicable to this college.