Schools Ranked by Full-Time to Part-Time Faculty Ratio

Using the full-time and part-time faculty figures from the College Navigator database, we calculated how many full-time faculty members each school had per part-time faculty member as of fall 2011. Accrediting agencies recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, such as the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (CIHE), acknowledge that a bigger number of full-time faculty members typically indicates a higher chance of high-quality instruction. In fact, the CIHE states that one of the factors it considers when evaluating a school is that the school “avoids undue dependence on part-time faculty, adjuncts, temporary appointments, and graduate assistants to conduct instruction.”

College Navigator did not have these figures for all of the colleges on our list. We did not, however, want to penalize those colleges without data. To that end, we simply excluded those schools from the rankings in this category.

Rank School FT to PT
Faculty Ratio		 Institution
Fin. Aid Rate		 Acceptance Rate Retention Rate Graduation Rate Accred.
Years		 Default
Rate		 Job Place. Rate  
501 Johnson County Community College 0.61 to 1 11% N/A 56% 17% 37 18% N/A  
502 Gulf Coast Community College 0.60 to 1 40% N/A N/A 33% 50 20% N/A  
502 Riverland Community College 0.60 to 1 6% N/A 59% 32% 16 15% N/A  
504 Quinnipiac University 0.60 to 1 84% 63% 87% 77% 54 2% N/A  
505 Belhaven University 0.60 to 1 81% 48% 63% 48% 71 7% N/A  
506 Bladen Community College 0.60 to 1 9% N/A 52% 20% 36 0% N/A  
507 La Roche College 0.60 to 1 76% 46% 73% 52% 33 7% N/A  
508 Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College 0.59 to 1 98% 51% 59% 57% 93 10% N/A  
509 Centralia College 0.59 to 1 21% N/A 53% 34% 64 0% N/A  
510 Rowan University 0.59 to 1 34% 56% 87% 68% 54 6% N/A  
511 Alvin Community College 0.58 to 1 7% N/A 60% 12% 53 23% N/A  
511 University of New Haven 0.58 to 1 97% 64% 75% 52% 46 5% N/A  
513 Mount Aloysius College 0.58 to 1 99% 72% 62% 51% 69 10% N/A  
514 Guilford Technical Community College 0.58 to 1 5% N/A 59% 14% 43 19% N/A  
515 Arcadia University 0.58 to 1 99% 54% 76% 62% 66 5% N/A  
515 Miami University-Middletown 0.58 to 1 15% N/A 49% 23% 46 8% N/A  
517 Berkeley College-New York 0.57 to 1 89% N/A 50% 33% 19 19% N/A  
518 Jefferson Community College 0.57 to 1 10% N/A 54% 29% 43 17% N/A  
519 National Louis University 0.57 to 1 90% 86% 57% 26% 8 7% N/A  
519 Vance-Granville Community College 0.57 to 1 23% N/A 66% 23% 35 0% N/A  
521 Saint Joseph College 0.57 to 1 99% 78% 75% 56% 74 6% N/A  
522 Wake Technical Community College 0.57 to 1 3% N/A 69% 15% 42 12% N/A  
523 Sacred Heart University 0.57 to 1 89% 64% 75% 68% 43 4% N/A  
524 Anderson University 0.56 to 1 100% 73% 72% 48% 53 8% N/A  
525 Colorado Northwestern Community College 0.56 to 1 58% N/A 51% 20% 36 15% N/A  
526 CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice 0.56 to 1 0% 47% 78% 30% 47 5% N/A  
527 College of Southern Nevada 0.55 to 1 12% N/A N/A 11% 37 20% N/A  
528 Cuyahoga Valley Career Center 0.55 to 1 0% 94% 70% 72% 82 9% N/A  
529 Reinhardt University 0.54 to 1 75% 58% 56% 48% 59 15% N/A  
530 Tabor College 0.54 to 1 100% 91% 69% 52% 47 9% N/A  
531 Lasell College 0.54 to 1 82% 74% 64% 47% 80 7% N/A  
532 Del Mar College 0.54 to 1 20% N/A N/A 9% 66 14% N/A  
533 Northwest Technical College 0.53 to 1 2% N/A 48% 29% 17 17% N/A  
534 Newman University 0.53 to 1 99% 43% 70% 28% 45 8% N/A  
535 Lincoln Land Community College 0.53 to 1 8% N/A 54% 20% 39 19% N/A  
536 Lewis University 0.53 to 1 99% 62% 77% 62% 49 7% N/A  
537 Pace University-New York 0.53 to 1 98% 79% 78% 53% 55 5% N/A  
538 Edgecombe Community College 0.53 to 1 4% N/A N/A 56% 39 20% N/A  
539 Misericordia University 0.53 to 1 99% 57% 86% 64% 77 5% N/A  
540 Bismarck State College 0.52 to 1 24% N/A N/A 40% 46 6% N/A  
541 Santa Fe College 0.52 to 1 5% N/A N/A 43% 44 15% N/A  
542 Viterbo University 0.52 to 1 98% 78% 71% 47% 58 6% N/A  
543 McKendree University 0.52 to 1 100% 68% 76% 54% 42 9% N/A  
544 University of Great Falls 0.52 to 1 91% N/A 55% 28% 77 8% N/A  
545 AIB College of Business 0.51 to 1 69% 58% 65% 50% 26 9% N/A  
546 University of La Verne 0.51 to 1 95% 59% 86% 58% 57 5% N/A  
547 Florida State College at Jacksonville 0.51 to 1 15% N/A N/A 32% 43 18% N/A  
548 Roosevelt University 0.51 to 1 91% 74% 65% 46% 66 6% N/A  
549 Cumberland University 0.51 to 1 96% 49% 71% 34% 50 14% N/A  
550 Miller-Motte Technical College 0.50 to 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A 2 N/A N/A  
550 University of the Southwest 0.50 to 1 87% N/A 49% 18% 32 17% N/A  
552 Georgia Northwestern Technical College 0.50 to 1 2% N/A N/A 29% 40 0% N/A  
553 Bossier Parish Community College 0.49 to 1 17% N/A 49% 14% 29 25% N/A  
554 DeSales University 0.49 to 1 98% 73% 81% 69% 42 3% N/A  
555 Bethel University 0.49 to 1 86% 48% 62% 32% 60 16% N/A  
556 Erikson Institute 0.49 to 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A 12 3% N/A  
556 Ohio University-Zanesville Campus 0.49 to 1 20% N/A 56% 39% 66 9% N/A  
558 Endicott College 0.49 to 1 85% 59% 88% 67% 60 3% N/A  
559 Kaskaskia College 0.49 to 1 25% N/A 61% 42% 43 0% N/A  
560 San Joaquin Valley College-Online 0.48 to 1 0% N/A 41% 39% N/A 18% N/A  
561 Adelphi University 0.48 to 1 90% 69% 81% 66% 91 5% 50%  
562 University of Mary 0.48 to 1 98% 75% 72% 52% 43 4% N/A  
563 Northwestern College 0.47 to 1 47% 94% 32% 23% 15 21% N/A  
564 Dakota College at Bottineau 0.47 to 1 36% N/A 41% 37% 41 8% N/A  
565 Western New Mexico University 0.47 to 1 0% N/A 50% 18% 86 18% N/A  
566 Friends University 0.47 to 1 89% 64% 66% 25% 61 11% N/A  
567 Pensacola State College 0.47 to 1 22% N/A N/A 30% 56 17% N/A  
568 Chaminade University of Honolulu 0.47 to 1 99% 90% 71% 38% 52 10% N/A  
569 Mount Mary College 0.47 to 1 100% 53% 66% 46% 86 6% N/A  
570 Franklin Pierce University 0.47 to 1 84% 93% 62% 49% 44 8% N/A  
571 Northwest Florida State College 0.47 to 1 11% N/A N/A 37% 45 18% N/A  
572 Champlain College 0.47 to 1 84% 85% 76% 62% 40 3% 83%  
573 Monroe College-Main Campus 0.46 to 1 58% 61% 66% 51% 22 9% N/A  
574 University of St Francis 0.46 to 1 100% 44% 79% 63% 74 3% N/A  
575 El Camino College-Compton Center 0.46 to 1 2% N/A N/A 9% N/A 19% N/A  
576 Parkland College 0.46 to 1 9% N/A 60% 20% 40 18% N/A  
577 Broadview University 0.46 to 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A 2 N/A N/A  
578 Glendale Community College 0.46 to 1 0% N/A N/A 28% 60 15% 94%  
579 Lanier Technical College 0.46 to 1 0% N/A 50% 40% 40 0% N/A  
580 Chatham University 0.46 to 1 100% 62% 70% 60% 88 3% 68%  
581 Austin Community College District 0.46 to 1 16% N/A N/A 4% 34 17% N/A  
582 San Diego Christian College 0.46 to 1 88% 39% 62% 31% 30 9% N/A  
583 Shoreline Community College 0.45 to 1 18% N/A 64% 37% 46 11% N/A  
584 Hutchinson Community College 0.45 to 1 59% N/A 63% 30% 52 7% N/A  
585 Vanguard University of Southern California 0.45 to 1 95% 74% 75% 55% 48 5% N/A  
586 Truckee Meadows Community College 0.45 to 1 4% N/A 63% 17% 32 18% N/A  
587 Saint Joseph's College of Maine 0.45 to 1 100% 88% 75% 55% 51 3% N/A  
588 Siena Heights University 0.44 to 1 96% 55% 66% 44% 72 7% N/A  
589 Everglades University 0.44 to 1 42% 86% 70% 65% 19 13% N/A  
590 Sinclair Community College 0.44 to 1 9% N/A 51% 10% 42 20% N/A  
591 Fulton-Montgomery Community College 0.44 to 1 3% N/A N/A 31% 43 25% N/A  
592 Laramie County Community College 0.44 to 1 54% N/A 58% 13% 37 17% N/A  
593 Los Angeles Pierce College 0.44 to 1 0% N/A 74% 23% 60 18% N/A  
594 Southern Nazarene University 0.44 to 1 97% N/A 62% 44% 56 8% N/A  
595 Stanly Community College 0.43 to 1 6% N/A 62% 33% 33 0% N/A  
596 Great Basin College 0.43 to 1 14% N/A 58% 23% 38 10% N/A  
597 Cerro Coso Community College 0.43 to 1 0% N/A 49% 19% 37 18% N/A  
598 Lindenwood University 0.43 to 1 94% 53% 70% 45% 94 5% N/A  
599 Southwest Tennessee Community College 0.43 to 1 7% 100% 46% 5% 12 0% N/A  
600 Finger Lakes Community College 0.43 to 1 5% N/A N/A 29% 35 21% N/A  

Methodology

For each college, we gathered data for nine different metrics: the number of full-time faculty per part-time faculty member; institutional financial aid, acceptance, retention, graduation, job placement, and default rates; years accredited; and undergraduate tuition. Learn more