The Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine 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 Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Student-to-Teacher Ratio Unknown

We were not able to determine the student to faculty ratio at Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center.

Breakdown of Instructional Staff

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 Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center as primarily performing research or public service.

Lower Than Average Number of Full-Time Teachers

36.0% of the teaching staff are full time at Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center, which places this college below average in its use of full-time teachers when compared to a nationwide average.

Any Questions?

• High Number of Non-Instructional Staff: This college lists less than 20% of its employees as instructional which could merely be the way the school reports their numbers, or, it could indicate an unusually high number of faculty has various duties, with only a few focused primarily on instruction.

Above Average Reliance on Adjuncts

64.0% of the teaching staff at Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center 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 48.1%, 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.

Reliance on Graduate Assistants Unknown

We were not able to determine Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center's reliance on graduate students.