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The College of Charleston Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does C of C have a good student to faculty ratio?

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

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 College of Charleston is on par with the national average of 15 students for every one instructional faculty member, at 15 :1. This ratio is a standard metric used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students.

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 College of Charleston as primarily performing research or public service.

TotalFull TimePart TimePercent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees88953435560.1%
  Total of Those With Faculty Status88953435560.1%
    Tenured Faculty3203200100.0%
    On Tenure Track1171170100.0%
    Not on Tenure Track4529735521.5%
  Without Faculty Status----
  Graduate Assistants36-36-

Above Average Use of Full-Time Teachers

College of Charleston has more full-time teachers than the average school, with 60.0% of instructors teaching full time.

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Below Average Reliance on Part-Time Teachers

At College of Charleston , only 40.0% 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 51.4%, which could be indicative of College of Charleston'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.

You May End Up Getting Taught by a Grad Assistant

College of Charleston has 36 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 135 non-instructional graduate assistants.

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