Academic Life at Tougaloo College

The Academic Picture

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

Use the sections below to explore each part of academic life in more detail, or follow a link to the full report on that topic:

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

Faculty Resources

The student-to-faculty ratio at Tougaloo College is about average at 14 to 1, close to the national average of 15 to 1. With 98% of instructors full time, Tougaloo College is above the national average of 47%.

For the full breakdown — tenure status, part-time and adjunct share, and how the faculty compares with the national average — see the faculty composition report.

Majors & Degrees

Tougaloo College offers 19 majors with reported completions across 14 broad fields of study.

The degree levels available at Tougaloo College are shown below:

Ranked by number of graduates, these are the most popular majors at Tougaloo College.

See the full majors breakdown on the academic majors page.

Additional Questions to Ask

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

• Need flexibility? Check whether Tougaloo College offers the online or summer classes that fit your schedule — about 525 undergraduates study at least partly online. Explore online learning.
• Thinking about graduate school? Consider how many students continue their studies and how well the school retains and graduates its students (83% of full-time freshmen return for a second year). See graduation and retention.
• Worried about job prospects? Ask about employment outcomes for recent graduates of Tougaloo College.

Explore Further on Tougaloo College

Follow the links below for a deeper look at a specific part of academic life:

• Academic Majors at Tougaloo College — the full list of majors, concentrations and graduation numbers
• Faculty Composition at Tougaloo College — how the teaching staff is structured
• Graduation & Retention at Tougaloo College — graduation and first-year retention rates
• Online Learning at Tougaloo College — distance-learning enrollment detail
• Accreditation at Tougaloo College — the schools accreditation and what it means