The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Student to Faculty Ratio & Faculty Composition

What is the faculty composition at UAMS ?

Check out the information on class structures and faculty to get a feel for the academic life at UAMS .

Student to Faculty Ratio is Well Above Average

Student to faculty ratio is a common metric used to gauge the number of teaching resources a school provides for its students. With 10 students for every one instructional faculty member, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ranks among the best colleges when compared to the national average of 15.

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 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as primarily performing research or public service.

How Seriously Does This School Take Hiring Full-Time Teachers? Very Seriously

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' utilization of full-time teaching staff ranks among the highest in the nation, with 85.0% 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.
• High Number of Non-Instructional Staff: This college lists less than 20% of its employees as instructional which could merely be the way the school reports their numbers, or, it could indicate an unusually high number of faculty has various duties, with only a few focused primarily on instruction.

Reliance on Part-Time Teachers is Way Below Average

At University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , only 1.0% 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 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' 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.

Grad Assistants May Not Teach Classes

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences reports 115 graduate assistants, however, none of them are considered instructional, meaning they do not teach or perform teaching-related activities.