Averett University's Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

What are the Student to Faculty Ratios Like at Averett University?

Get a feel for student life at Averett University by checking out the information on classes and faculty below.

Importance of Faculty Composition at Averett University

The student to faculty ratio, as well as the number of full-time vs. part-time instructors, can give you an idea of how much attention you'll receive as an individual student at Averett University.

Average Teacher to Student Ratio

Student to faculty ratio at Averett University is on par with the national average of 14 students for every one instructional faculty member, at 13:1. This ratio is a standard metric used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students.

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 Averett University as primarily performing research or public service.

This Campus is Filled with Full-Time Teachers

Averett University makes above average use of full-time teachers, with 63.0% of instructors teaching full time.

Lower Than Average Use of Adjuncts or Part-Time Teachers

At Averett University, only 37.0% of the teaching staff are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This use of adjuncts is low, below the national average of 51.0%, which could be indicative of Averett University'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.

Grad Assistants May Teach Classes

Averett University has 11 instructional graduate assistants that teach or provide teaching-related duties. These responsibilities could range from entirely teaching lower-level courses themselves, to assisting professors by developing teaching materials, preparing or giving exams and grading student work. We suggest you ask the college to what extent graduate assistants are relied on for instruction, so you know what you are paying for.