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The Bowling Green State University - Main Campus Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

What is the faculty composition at BGSU?

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

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

Worse Than Average Student to Faculty Ratio

Student to faculty ratio is one of the standard metrics used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students. With 18 students for every one instructional faculty member, Bowling Green State University - Main Campus has more students split among the same faculty when compared to the national average of 14. This metric might be an indicator that larger class sizes may be the norm, especially in introductory courses.

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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 Bowling Green State University - Main Campus as primarily performing research or public service.

TotalFull TimePart TimePercent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees1,13474439065.6%
  Total of Those With Faculty Status1,07774433369.1%
    Tenured Faculty3923920100.0%
    On Tenure Track1081080100.0%
    Not on Tenure Track57724433342.3%
  Without Faculty Status570570.0%
  Graduate Assistants707-707-

This Campus is Filled with Full-Time Teachers

Bowling Green State University - Main Campus has more full-time teachers than the average school, with 66.0% of instructors teaching full time.

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Below Average Reliance on Part-Time Teachers

At Bowling Green State University - Main Campus, only 34.0% 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 Bowling Green State University - Main Campus' 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.

Grad Assistants May Teach Classes

Bowling Green State University - Main Campus has 707 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.

Additionally, the school has 359 non-instructional graduate assistants.

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