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The CUNY City College Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does CUNY City College have a good student to faculty ratio?

Get a feel for student life at CUNY City College 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

Good Student to Faculty Ratio

CUNY City College, with 12 students for every instructional faculty member, has more professors per student than the national average, which is 14 students for every one instructor. This student to faculty ratio is one of the standard metrics used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students, and therefore, the individualized attention or quality of instruction the student might receive.

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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 CUNY City College as primarily performing research or public service.

TotalFull TimePart TimePercent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees1,57162394839.7%
  Total of Those With Faculty Status1,57162394839.7%
    Tenured Faculty4404400100.0%
    On Tenure Track1551550100.0%
    Not on Tenure Track976289482.9%
  Without Faculty Status----
  Graduate Assistants72-72-

Lower Than Average Number of Full-Time Teachers

40.0% of the teaching staff are full time at CUNY City College, which places this college below average in its use of full-time teachers when compared to a nationwide average.

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Above Average Reliance on Adjuncts

60.0% of the teaching staff at CUNY City College are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This percentage represents a higher than average use of adjuncts when compared to the national average of 49.1%, a controversial statistic that some consider indicative of a 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.

You May End Up Getting Taught by a Grad Assistant

CUNY City College has 72 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.

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