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The SUNY Plattsburgh Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

Does SUNY Plattsburgh have a good student to faculty ratio?

Use the student to faculty ratio, as well as the faculty composition to get an idea of how much attention you'll receive as an individual student at SUNY Plattsburgh .

Average Teacher to Student Ratio

Student to faculty ratio at SUNY Plattsburgh is on par with the national average of 15 students for every one instructional faculty member, at 16 :1. This ratio is a standard metric used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students.

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 SUNY Plattsburgh as primarily performing research or public service.

TotalFull TimePart TimePercent Full Time
Total of Instructional Employees39725214563.5%
Total of Those With Faculty Status39725214563.5%
Tenured Faculty145138795.2%
On Tenure Track7070-100.0%
Not on Tenure Track1824413824.2%
Without Faculty Status----
Graduate Assistants12-12-

Above Average Use of Full-Time Teachers

SUNY Plattsburgh has more full-time teachers than the average school, with 63.0% of instructors teaching full time.

Lower Than Average Use of Adjuncts or Part-Time Teachers

At SUNY Plattsburgh , only 35.0% of the teaching staff are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This use of adjuncts is low, below the national average of 51.4%, which could be indicative of SUNY Plattsburgh'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

You May End Up Getting Taught by a Grad Assistant

SUNY Plattsburgh has 12 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 11 non-instructional graduate assistants.

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