Faculty strength is a hard thing to measure. You need to look at a variety of numbers to get a sense of the access you’ll have to professors inside and outside of the classroom and how qualified they are to teach. You’ll want to look at the number of faculty a program has, the percent of the faculty that are employed full-time versus part-time, and the percentage of the professors who have doctorate degrees. If you plan to enroll in an MBA program rather than just pick up a business book from the shelf at Barnes and Noble, it’s worth digging into these statistics to see what you’re getting for your investment in tuition dollars.
The average number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 69
The lowest number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 8
The highest number of full-time faculty for on-campus MBA in programs is 1,000
The average percentage of MBA full-time faculty with a Doctorate degree 84%
The lowest percentage of MBA full-time faculty with a Doctorate degree 50%
The highest percentage of MBA full-time faculty with a Doctorate degree 120%
Knowing that your professor is an industry influencer and has extensive teaching experience in the field of is a clear sign that a program delivers high quality education.
MBA Programs with the Highest and Lowest Full-Time Faculty
The campus MBA program with the largest total full- and part-time faculty is the Wilkes University. The program has 30,907 faculty, 1,000 of which are full time and 66.3% of whom have a doctorate degree.
The University of Hawaii at Hilo has the smallest faculty, with 17 full- and part-time professors, 12 of which of are employed full-time. All of University of Hawaii-Hilo’s faculty have doctorate degrees. Consider these numbers in conjunction with faculty/student ratios to see whether a program’s faculty is strong but spread thin across a large student body, or whether it’s small but still sufficient to give you the personalized attention you need.
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