Academic Life at Spelman College

The Academic Picture

Academics are the heart of the college experience. This overview pulls together the essentials of academic life at Spelman College: its faculty, its majors and fields of study, and its online learning options.

30 Majors With Completions

11:1 Student-Faculty Ratio

65% Full-Time Faculty

Jump to any section below, or follow a link to dig deeper into a specific part of academic life at Spelman College:

Faculty Resources
Most Popular Majors
Additional Questions to Ask
Continue Your Research

Faculty Resources

The student-to-faculty ratio at Spelman College is about average at 11 to 1, close to the national average of 15 to 1. Spelman College employs 65% of its instructors full time, above the national average of 47%.

For a deeper look at tenure, adjuncts and faculty composition, visit the faculty composition page.

Most Popular Majors

Spelman College offers 30 majors with reported completions across 17 broad fields of study.

The degree levels available at Spelman College are shown below:

Degree Level	Offered
Associate	—
Bachelor’s	✓
Master’s	—
Doctorate	—

The most popular majors at Spelman College, measured by graduates, are listed below.

Most Popular Majors	Graduates
Business Administration, Management and Operations	474
Psychology, General	89
Political Science and Government	62
Biology, General	61
Economics	34

For the complete list of majors, concentrations and graduation numbers, see the academic majors page.

More to Consider

As you weigh academic life at Spelman College, a few more questions are worth asking:

Need flexibility? Check whether Spelman College offers the online or summer classes that fit your schedule — about 1,128 undergraduates study at least partly online. See distance learning options.
Interested in outcomes? Look at how well Spelman College retains and graduates its students — 94% of full-time freshmen return). See graduation and retention.
Will a degree land you a job? Ask how many graduates were employed full time a year after finishing.

Continue Your Research into Spelman College

Each page below covers one part of academic life at Spelman College in more detail:

Academic Majors at Spelman College — the full list of majors, concentrations and graduation numbers
Faculty & Class Sizes at Spelman College — the full faculty and class-size breakdown
Graduation & Retention at Spelman College — graduation outcomes and retention detail
Distance Learning at Spelman College — distance-learning enrollment detail
Accreditation at Spelman College — the schools accreditation and what it means