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The Bridgewater College Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Bridgewater 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 Bridgewater 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 Bridgewater College is on par with the national average of 14 students for every one instructional faculty member, at 14:1. 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 Bridgewater College as primarily performing research or public service.

TotalFull TimePart TimePercent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees1561203676.9%
  Total of Those With Faculty Status1561203676.9%
    Tenured Faculty57570100.0%
    On Tenure Track39390100.0%
    Not on Tenure Track60243640.0%
  Without Faculty Status----
  Graduate Assistants----

This School is Seriously Committed to Hiring Full-Time Teachers

Bridgewater College's utilization of full-time teaching staff ranks among the highest in the nation, with 77.0% of instructors employed full time.

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Low Percentage of Part-Time Teachers (Adjuncts)

At Bridgewater College, only 23.0% 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 48.1%, which could be indicative of Bridgewater 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.

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  • 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.

Reliance on Graduate Assistants Unknown

We were not able to determine Bridgewater College's reliance on graduate students.

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