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Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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The Dickinson College Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Dickinson College 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 Dickinson College .

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

Student to Faculty Ratio is Well Above Average

Student to faculty ratio is a common metric used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students. With 9 students for every one instructional faculty member, Dickinson College ranks among the best colleges when compared to the national average of 15.

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 Dickinson College as primarily performing research or public service.

TotalFull TimePart TimePercent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees2902385282.1%
  Total of Those With Faculty Status2902385282.1%
    Tenured Faculty1371370100.0%
    On Tenure Track60600100.0%
    Not on Tenure Track93415244.1%
  Without Faculty Status----
  Graduate Assistants----

This School is Seriously Committed to Hiring Full-Time Teachers

Dickinson College's utilization of full-time teaching staff ranks among the highest in the nation, with 82.0% of instructors employed full time.

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Low Percentage of Part-Time Teachers (Adjuncts)

At Dickinson College , only 18.0% 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 51.4%, which could be indicative of Dickinson 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.

No Graduate Programs

Many U.S. colleges utilize enrolled graduate assistants to help instructional faculty, however, as Dickinson College does not offer graduate degree programs, this practice is not applicable to this college.

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