The Dallas Theological Seminary Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does DTS Dallas have a good student to faculty ratio?

Get a feel for student life at DTS Dallas 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 Dallas 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 Dallas 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.

Dallas Theological Seminary's utilization of full-time teaching staff ranks among the highest in the nation, with 100.0% of instructors employed full time.

Not Many Adjunct Teachers Here

At Dallas Theological Seminary, none of the teaching staff are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. By not using adjuncts, this puts Dallas Theological Seminary far below the national average of 49.0%, which could be indicative of their 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

Dallas Theological Seminary has 40 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.