The Eastern Nazarene College Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Eastern Nazarene College have a good student to faculty ratio?

Check out the information on class structures and faculty to get a feel for the academic life at Eastern Nazarene College.

Excellent Student to Faculty Ratio

Student to faculty ratio is a common metric used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students. With 8 students for every one instructional faculty member, Eastern Nazarene College ranks among the best colleges when compared to the national average of 14.

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 Eastern Nazarene College as primarily performing research or public service.

This College Among the Worst for Full-Time Teachers

Eastern Nazarene College's use of full-time instructors ranks among the nation's lowest, with only 22.0% of instructors teaching on a full-time basis.

High Reliance on Part-Time Teachers or Adjuncts

78.0% of the teaching staff at Eastern Nazarene College are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This high use of adjuncts is far above the national average of 49.0%. A high use of adjuncts instead of tenured professors is controversial, and some consider this statistic to be 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.

Non-Instructional Grad Assistants

Eastern Nazarene College reports 10 graduate assistants, however, none of them are considered instructional, meaning they do not teach or perform teaching-related activities.