by our College Data Analytics TeamGet a feel for student life at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law by checking out the information on classes and faculty below.
We were not able to determine the student to faculty ratio at University of the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law .
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 the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law as primarily performing research or public service.
| Total | Full Time | Part Time | Percent Full Time | |
| Total of Instructional Employees | 37 | 26 | 11 | 70.3% |
| Total of Those With Faculty Status | 24 | 23 | 1 | 95.8% |
| Tenured Faculty | 18 | 17 | 1 | 94.4% |
| On Tenure Track | 6 | 6 | - | 100.0% |
| Not on Tenure Track | - | - | - | - |
| Without Faculty Status | 13 | 3 | 10 | 23.1% |
| Graduate Assistants | 1 | - | 1 | - |
University of the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law has more full-time teachers than the average school, with 70.0% of instructors teaching full time.
At University of the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law , only 27.0% 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 the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law'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.
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.
University of the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law has a single instructional graduate assistant who teaches or provides 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.
