The Calvin Theological Seminary Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Calvin Seminary have a good student to faculty ratio?

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

Student-to-Teacher Ratio Unknown

We were not able to determine the student to faculty ratio at Calvin Theological Seminary.

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 Calvin Theological Seminary as primarily performing research or public service.

Do You Like Being Taught by Full-Time Teachers? Then You're Picking the Right School.

Calvin Theological Seminary's utilization of full-time teaching staff ranks among the highest in the nation, with 78.0% of instructors employed full time.

Not Many Adjunct Teachers Here

At Calvin Theological Seminary, 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 52.4%, which could be indicative of Calvin Theological Seminary'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.

Reliance on Graduate Assistants Unknown

We were not able to determine Calvin Theological Seminary's reliance on graduate students.