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The Kent State University at Trumbull Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Kent State University at Trumbull have a good student to faculty ratio?

Get a feel for student life at Kent State University at Trumbull by checking out the information on classes and faculty below.

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Student to Faculty Ratio is Higher Than Average

The student to faculty ratio at Kent State University at Trumbull is 32 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.

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 Kent State University at Trumbull as primarily performing research or public service.

Total Full Time Part Time Percent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees 63 40 23 63%
Total of Those With Faculty Status 63 40 23 63%
Tenured Faculty 15 15 - 100%
On Tenure Track - - - -
Not on Tenure Track 48 25 23 52%
Without Faculty Status - - - -
Graduate Assistants 24 - 24 -

Do You Like Being Taught by Full-Time Teachers? Then You’re Picking the Right School.

Kent State University at Trumbull's utilization of full-time teaching staff ranks among the highest in the nation, with 63% of instructors employed full time.

Lower Than Average Use of Adjuncts or Part-Time Teachers

At Kent State University at Trumbull, 37% of the teaching staff are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This is a bit below 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.

You May End Up Getting Taught by a Grad Assistant

Kent State University at Trumbull has 23 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. Additionally, the school has 1 non-instructional graduate assistants.

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