by our College Data Analytics TeamTake a look at the classes and faculty information below to get a feel for student life at Eastern Gateway Community College.
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The student to faculty ratio at Eastern Gateway Community College is 22 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. Some of your classes may be larger than they would be at other schools.
At Eastern Gateway Community College, 8% of instructors are full time — lower than the national average of 47%.
At Eastern Gateway Community College, 92% of the teaching staff are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This is above the national average of 51.4%.
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.
