Alma College: Faculty & Salaries

Overall Rating:Overall Ranking - Below AverageQuality:Education Quality Rating - OustandingSafety:Capmus Safety Rating - Very BadCosts:Tuition & Fees Cost Rating - Bad

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Average
Faculty Salary
$90,000
Bad
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.

In this report for Alma College we provide you with information about faculty structure, salaries, and class sizes, as well as comparisons to competing and nearby colleges.

Faculty Compensation and Workload

Full-time
Faculty
85
As a rule, adequately compensated instructors are better motivated and have more opportunities to concentrate on teaching; therefore, we consider faculty compensation to be an important factor for evaluating education quality.

Faculty monthly salaries at Alma College vary approximately from $6,000 to $10,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $90,000 a year, which is 30% lower than Michigan average faculty compensation.

Women faculty members at the school are paid $7,156 a month on average; which is slightly lower than average men faculty salaries - $7,820 a month.

Faculty Rank
School Average
MI Average
Difference

Professor
$115,008
$173,000
-34%

Associate professor
$89,172
$128,558
-31%

Assistant professor
$80,244
$108,858
-26%

Instructor
$77,676
$93,561
-17%

Lecturer
$72,624
$98,372
-26%

Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Alma College Faculty Compensation and Workload Chart
Students to
Faculty Ratio
14 : 1
Low
Alma College has a pretty decent, 14:1 students-to-faculty ratio.

Low ratios typically imply smaller class size, more attention to students, better quality of education, and higher satisfaction both for students and instructors. High ratios are usually a sign of the opposite.

Use the charts above to compare faculty compensation and workload at Alma College versus nearby colleges.

Faculty Ranking and Demographics

The full-time faculty at Alma College includes 19 professors, 30 associate professors, 18 assistant professors, 9 instructors, and 9 lecturers - 45 men and 40 women:
Alma College Faculty Demographics Chart

Please note that faculty rank (e.g. associate professor, lecturer, instructor) is typically assigned by the college itself.

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