SUNY Cortland: Faculty & Salaries

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Average
Faculty Salary
$85,000
Bad
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.

In this report for SUNY Cortland 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
320
As a rule, properly 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 SUNY Cortland vary approximately from $5,000 to $10,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $85,000 a year, that is 39% lower than New York average faculty compensation.

Women faculty members at the school are paid $6,876 a month on average; it is slightly lower than average men faculty salaries, $7,319 a month.

Faculty Rank
School Average
NY Average
Difference

Professor
$110,052
$193,453
-43%

Associate professor
$90,372
$133,142
-32%

Assistant professor
$73,860
$110,554
-33%

Instructor
$68,532
$82,895
-17%

Lecturer
$61,968
$111,458
-44%

Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

SUNY Cortland Faculty Compensation and Workload Chart
Students to
Faculty Ratio
15 : 1
Low
SUNY Cortland has a pretty decent, 15:1 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 SUNY Cortland versus nearby colleges.

Faculty Ranking and Demographics

The full-time faculty at SUNY Cortland includes 72 professors, 96 associate professors, 87 assistant professors, 15 instructors, and 50 lecturers - 141 men and 179 women:
SUNY Cortland 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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