Western Seminary: Faculty & Salaries
Overall Rating:
Quality:
Safety:Costs:
ReviewMajors / RatingsFaculty / SalariesCampus Crime
Average
Faculty Salary
Faculty Salary
$80,000
Bad
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.In this report for Western Seminary 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
Faculty
20
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 Western Seminary vary approximately from $6,000 to $7,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $80,000 a year - that is 33% lower than Oregon average faculty compensation.
Women faculty members at the college are paid $7,099 a month on average; which is slightly higher than average men faculty salaries, $6,438 a month.
Faculty Rank
School Average
OR Average
Difference
Professor
$82,476
$162,540
-49%
Assistant professor
$76,752
$105,200
-27%
Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios
Students to
Faculty Ratio
Faculty Ratio
18 : 1
Medium
Western Seminary has a reasonably decent, 18:1 students-to-faculty ratio.Low ratios typically 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 Western Seminary versus nearby colleges.
Faculty Ranking and Demographics
The full-time faculty at Western Seminary consists of 10 professors and 10 assistant professors - 14 men and 6 women:
Please note that faculty rank (e.g. associate professor, lecturer, instructor) is usually assigned by the college itself.
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