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The Purchase College Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does Purchase College have a good student to faculty ratio?

Get a feel for student life at Purchase College by checking out the information on classes and faculty below.

Amount of Faculty Here is About Average

Student to faculty ratio at Purchase College is on par with the national average of 15 students for every one instructional faculty member, at 14 :1. This ratio is a standard metric used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students.

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 Purchase College as primarily performing research or public service.

TotalFull TimePart TimePercent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees43418025441.5%
Total of Those With Faculty Status43418025441.5%
Tenured Faculty9891792.9%
On Tenure Track5954591.5%
Not on Tenure Track2773524212.6%
Without Faculty Status----
Graduate Assistants15-15-

Reliance on Part-Time Teachers is About Average

At Purchase College ,41.0% of the teaching staff are full time, which is on average when compared nationally.

Use of Part-Time Teachers is About Average

56.0% of the teaching staff at Purchase College are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This use of adjuncts is on par with 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. It's your education and your money on the line. Make sure you know what you are getting for it.

Additional Information

You May End Up Getting Taught by a Grad Assistant

Purchase College has 15 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.

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