Overall Rating:
Quality:
Safety:
Costs:
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Average
Faculty Salary
Bad
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.
In this report for
High Desert Medical 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
32
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 High Desert Medical College vary approximately from $6,000 to $7,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $75,000 a year - that is 51% lower than California average faculty compensation.
Women faculty members at the school are paid $5,917 a month on average; which is much lower than average men faculty salaries, $7,450 a month.
Faculty Rank
School Average
CA Average
Difference
Instructor
$74,460
$124,802
-40%
Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Students to
Faculty Ratio
20 : 1
Medium
High Desert Medical College has a reasonably decent, 20:1 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 High Desert Medical College versus nearby colleges.
Faculty Ranking and Demographics
The full-time faculty at High Desert Medical College consists of 32 instructors - 6 men and 26 women:

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