Northwest Career College: Faculty & Salaries

Overall Rating:Overall Ranking - Below AverageQuality:Education Quality Rating - BadSafety:Capmus Safety Rating - OustandingCosts:Tuition & Fees Cost Rating - Fair

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Average
Faculty Salary
$55,000
Bad
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.

In this report for Northwest Career 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
52
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 Northwest Career College vary approximately from $4,000 to $5,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $55,000 a year - which is 53% lower than Nevada average faculty compensation.

Women faculty members at the school are paid $4,585 a month on average; it is about the same as average men faculty salaries - $4,645 a month.

Faculty Rank
School Average
NV Average
Difference

Unranked Teacher
$55,188
$93,050
-41%

Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Northwest Career College Faculty Compensation and Workload Chart
Students to
Faculty Ratio
35 : 1
High
Northwest Career College has a quite disappointing, 35:1 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 Northwest Career College versus nearby colleges.

Faculty Ranking and Demographics

The full-time faculty at Northwest Career College includes 52 unranked teachers - 12 men and 40 women:
Northwest Career 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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