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The Birmingham Southern College Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Birmingham Southern College have a good student to faculty ratio?

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 Birmingham Southern College.

On This Page You'll Find:

  • Student to Faculty Ratio
  • Faculty Composition
  • Percent of Full Time Instructors
  • Percent of Adjunct Professors
  • Graduate Assistant Breakdown
  • Related Resources

Amount of Faculty Here is About Average

Student to faculty ratio at Birmingham Southern College 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.

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Instructional Staff at the College

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 Birmingham Southern College as primarily performing research or public service.

TotalFull TimePart TimePercent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees123893472.4%
  Total of Those With Faculty Status123893472.4%
    Tenured Faculty59590100.0%
    On Tenure Track17170100.0%
    Not on Tenure Track47133427.7%
  Without Faculty Status----
  Graduate Assistants----

Below Average Use of Part-Timers

Birmingham Southern College has more full-time teachers than the average school, with 72.0% of instructors teaching full time.

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Below Average Reliance on Part-Time Teachers

At Birmingham Southern College, only 28.0% 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 48.1%, which could be indicative of Birmingham Southern 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?

    On this page, we refer to an adjunct teacher or a part-time teacher interchangeably, although each school may have a slightly different definition. In short, an adjunct professor can either work full-time or part-time during a school semester, but they have no contract or a contract that lasts only a short amount of time. To come up with the numbers for this page, 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 Birmingham Southern College does not offer graduate degree programs, this practice is not applicable to this college.

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