Gordon State College: Faculty & Salaries

Overall Rating:Overall Ranking - Below AverageQuality:Education Quality Rating - FairSafety:Capmus Safety Rating - PoorCosts:Tuition & Fees Cost Rating - Excellent

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Average
Faculty Salary
$91,000
Fair
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.

In this report for Gordon State 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
81
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.

Monthly faculty salaries at Gordon State College vary approximately from $5,000 to $9,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $91,000 a year, which is 17% lower than Georgia average faculty compensation.

Women faculty members at the college are paid $7,356 a month on average; which is slightly lower than average men faculty salaries, $7,798 a month.

Faculty Rank
School Average
GA Average
Difference

Professor
$100,344
$153,056
-34%

Associate professor
$85,956
$115,735
-26%

Assistant professor
$83,376
$102,552
-19%

Instructor
$72,240
$64,606
+12%

Lecturer
$71,112
$86,233
-18%

Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Gordon State College Faculty Compensation and Workload Chart
Students to
Faculty Ratio
21 : 1
Medium
Gordon State College has a reasonably decent, 21:1 students-to-faculty ratio.

Low ratios usually 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 Gordon State College versus nearby colleges.

Faculty Ranking and Demographics

The full-time faculty at Gordon State College consists of 40 professors, 16 associate professors, 15 assistant professors, 1 instructor, and 9 lecturers - 38 men and 43 women:
Gordon State College Faculty Demographics Chart

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

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