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  
801 Walsh College of Accountancy and Business Administration 0.11 to 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A 37 3% N/A  
802 The National Hispanic University 0.11 to 1 5% 99% 67% 18% 10 14% N/A  
803 Saint Leo University 0.11 to 1 100% 93% 66% 46% 45 7% N/A  
804 Wilmington University 0.10 to 1 5% N/A 58% 37% 37 7% N/A  
805 Stratford University 0.10 to 1 0% N/A 61% 51% 10 19% N/A  
806 City College--Fort Lauderdale 0.10 to 1 0% 100% N/A 58% 26 28% 100%  
807 University of Maryland-University College 0.10 to 1 8% N/A 40% 12% 66 6% N/A  
808 Union Institute & University 0.10 to 1 53% N/A 71% 9% 27 6% N/A  
809 South University‚Savannah Online 0.09 to 1 5% 68% 18% 8% N/A N/A N/A  
810 Franklin University 0.09 to 1 4% N/A 32% 19% 36 10% N/A  
811 New England College of Business and Finance 0.09 to 1 50% N/A 100% N/A 6 0% N/A  
812 Jones International University 0.09 to 1 0% N/A 15% 67% 13 8% N/A  
813 Center for Advanced Legal Studies 0.09 to 1 0% 38% N/A 55% 23 12% N/A  
814 National University 0.09 to 1 2% N/A 85% 38% 11 7% N/A  
815 Columbia College 0.08 to 1 21% N/A 57% 40% 94 12% 85%  
816 ITT Technical Institute-Indianapolis 0.08 to 1 1% 89% 28% 16% 13 34% N/A  
817 LA College International 0.08 to 1 1% N/A 26% 44% 9 22% N/A  
818 Anthem College-Phoenix 0.08 to 1 1% N/A 29% 37% 3 9% N/A  
819 Grand Canyon University 0.07 to 1 85% 37% 59% 31% 44 15% N/A  
820 Westwood College-Los Angeles 0.06 to 1 20% 47% 29% 16% 21 23% N/A  
821 Walden University 0.06 to 1 6% N/A 28% N/A 22 4% N/A  
822 Argosy University-Orange County 0.05 to 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A 1 13% N/A  
823 Cleary University 0.05 to 1 36% N/A 36% 64% 24 7% N/A  
824 City University of Seattle 0.05 to 1 0% N/A 83% 13% 34 6% N/A  
825 Northcentral University 0.05 to 1 0% N/A N/A N/A 9 13% N/A  
826 International Academy of Design and Technology-Online 0.04 to 1 6% N/A 41% N/A N/A 27% N/A  
827 American InterContinental University-Online 0.04 to 1 38% 98% 14% 28% 3 27% N/A  
828 DeVry University-Illinois 0.04 to 1 21% 78% 53% 33% 30 24% N/A  
829 Rio Salado College 0.03 to 1 1% N/A 37% 27% 31 23% N/A  
830 National American University-Rapid City 0.02 to 1 13% N/A 29% 28% 27 23% N/A  
831 Ashford University-Iowa 0.02 to 1 10% 90% 42% 22% 62 20% N/A  
832 Colorado Technical University Online 0.01 to 1 9% N/A 20% 10% N/A 25% N/A  
833 University of Phoenix-Online Campus 0.01 to 1 5% N/A 36% 17% 13 26% N/A  
834 Granite State College 0.01 to 1 57% N/A 60% 17% 32 12% N/A  
835 Ellis University 0.00 to 1 0% N/A N/A N/A 4 N/A N/A  
836 Aspen University 0.00 to 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A 19 0% N/A  
836 Azusa Pacific Online University 0.00 to 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A  
836 Community College of Vermont 0.00 to 1 11% N/A 45% 12% 37 15% N/A  
836 Daymar College Online 0.00 to 1 12% N/A N/A N/A N/A 30% N/A  
836 Mt Sierra College 0.00 to 1 42% 40% 69% 27% 16 11% 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