The Naval Postgraduate School Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Naval Postgraduate School 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 Naval Postgraduate School .

Student-to-Teacher Ratio Unknown

We were not able to determine the student to faculty ratio at Naval Postgraduate School .

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 Naval Postgraduate School as primarily performing research or public service.

This School is Seriously Committed to Hiring Full-Time Teachers

Naval Postgraduate School's utilization of full-time teaching staff ranks among the highest in the nation, with 86.0% of instructors employed full time.

Any Questions?

• Research-Focused College: This school has a large number of faculty that spend a significant amount of their time on research projects. This can be a big plus if you are interested in pursuing graduate work or performing research yourself. However, the risk for all students, particularly undergrads, is that many of the faculty may be focused on their research, not on your instruction.

Low Percentage of Part-Time Teachers (Adjuncts)

At Naval Postgraduate School , only 14.0% 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 Naval Postgraduate School'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 Naval Postgraduate School's reliance on graduate students.