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The Delaware Study: 2006 Report

National Study of Instructional Costs & Productivity

1. Choose a Table Type:

Table 1 presents the proportional distribution of student credit hours and organized class section according to the type of faculty teaching them. The distributions are given independently by course level: undergraduate lower division, undergraduate upper division, total undergraduate and total graduate. Norms by faculty type are presented in the following tables:

Tenure/tenure-track faculty
Other regular faculty
Supplemental faculty
Teaching assistants who taught credit bearing courses

Table 2 presents the proportional distribution of student credit hours and organized class sections taught according to course level for the following faculty types:

Tenure/tenure-track faculty
Other regular faculty

Table 3 summarizes the Fall 2004 faculty workload using the average student credit hours, average organized class sections, and average FTE students taught per FTE instructional faculty as indicators. An FTE student is equivalent to 15 undergraduate student credit hours or 9 graduate student credit hours. These norms are given in the following tables by faculty type as well as for all faculty combined:

Tenure/tenure-track faculty
Other regular faculty
Supplemental faculty
Teaching assistants who taught credit bearing courses

Table 4 summarizes direct instructional costs per student credit hour and per FTE student taught using the total student credit hours generated during academic year 2004-2005 and fiscal 2004-2005 expenditure data. An FTE student taught for semester academic calendar institutions is equivalent to 30 undergraduate student credit hours or 18 graduate student credit hours; that for quarter academic calendar institutions is 45 undergraduate or 27 graduate student credit hours. Personnel cost as percent of the total direct instructional cost is also presented.

Table 4

2. Choose Programs by College/School:

Not all USC departments (CIP codes) are represented in all tables. If fewer than five peer institutions provide data for a particular CIP code, then we do not receive comparison data for that CIP code.

3. View Contributing Institutions by Program (CIP Code):

Participating Schools:

Arizona State University
Florida State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Louisiana State University
Montana State University-Bozeman
North Carolina State University
University of Alabama - Birmingham
University of Colorado - Boulder
University of Colorado - Denver
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Georgia
University of Kansas
University of Kentucky
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
University of Missouri - Columbia
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
University of New Mexico
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of South Carolina - Columbia
University of South Florida
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
University of Texas - Austin
University of Utah
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ.
Washington State University
Wayne State University

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