Overall Rating:
Quality:
Safety:
Costs:
ReviewMajors / RatingsFaculty / SalariesCampus Crime
Average
Faculty Salary
Bad
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.
In this report for
San Joaquin Valley College Santa Maria 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
3
As a rule, well-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 San Joaquin Valley College Santa Maria vary approximately from $7,000 to $8,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $86,000 a year, that is 44% lower than California average faculty compensation.
Faculty Rank
School Average
CA Average
Difference
Instructor
$85,968
$124,802
-31%
Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Students to
Faculty Ratio
18 : 1
Medium
San Joaquin Valley College Santa Maria has a reasonably decent, 18:1 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 San Joaquin Valley College Santa Maria versus nearby colleges.
Faculty Ranking and Demographics
The full-time faculty at San Joaquin Valley College Santa Maria consists of 3 instructors - 3 women:

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