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| Includes
all Instruction Faculty per Above Definitions (instructional faculty in preclinical and clinical medicine in School of Medicine NOT included) |
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| Full-time | Part-time | Total | |
| a) Total number of instructional faculty | 350 | 241 | 593 |
| b) Total number who are members of minority groups | 48 | 40 | 88 |
| c) Total number who are women | 139 | 117 | 258 |
| d) Total number who are men | 211 | 124 | 335 |
| e) Total number who are nonresident aliens (international) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| f) Total number with doctorate, first professional, or other terminal degree | 305 | 105 | 410 |
| g) Total number whose highest degree is a master’s but not a terminal master’s | 44 | 132 | 178 |
| h) Total number whose highest degree is a bachelor’s | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| i) Total number whose highest degree is unknown or other | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| j.) Total number in stand-alone graduate/professional programs in which faculty teach virtually only graduate-level students |
60 | 37 | 97 |
CDS I-2. Student to Faculty Ratio
Fall 2006 ratio of full-time equivalent students (full-time plus 1/3 part time) to full-time equivalent instructional faculty (full time plus 1/3 part time). Excluded are both faculty and students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, business, or public health in which faculty teach virtually only graduate level students. Mercer does not have undergraduate or graduate student teaching assistants.
Mercer's faculty and students in the Schools of Medicine, Law, Pharmacy, Theology are excluded. Graduate faculty and students in Business, Engineering and Education are included; these graduate programs are not stand-alone.
Fall 2006 Student to Faculty ratio: 12.3 to1 (based on 5,415 students and 496 faculty).
CDS I-3. Undergraduate Class Size
Mercer University has several distinct programs for undergraduate degree-seeking students:- The"traditional" program is offered on the Macon Campus in Georgia; it is a daytime program geared toward traditional age, first-time college students.
- Mercer offers an evening and weekend continuing education program geared toward adults held at off-campus centers around the state of Georgia.
- The Atlanta Campus offers upper division undergraduate courses leading to a BBA in business.
- The Georgia Baptist College of Nursing offers undergraduate nursing degrees in Atlanta.
Class Sections: A class section is an organized course offered for credit, identified by discipline and number, meeting at a stated time or times in a classroom or similar setting, and not a subsection such as a laboratory or discussion session. Undergraduate class sections are defined as any sections in which at least one degree-seeking undergraduate student is enrolled for credit. Excluded are distance learning classes and noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Excluded are students in independent study, co-operative programs, internships, foreign language taped tutor sessions, practicums, and all students in one-on-one classes. Each class section is counted only once and is not duplicated because of course catalog cross-listings.
Class Subsections: A class subsection includes any subsection of a course, such as laboratory, recitation, and discussion subsections that are supplementary in nature and are scheduled to meet separately from the lecture portion of the course. Undergraduate subsections are defined as any subsections of courses in which degree-seeking undergraduate students are enrolled for credit. As above, excluded are noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Each class subsection is counted only once and is not duplicated because of cross-listings.
Following are the the number of class sections and class subsections offered in Fall 2006 by class-size intervals. For example, a lecture class with 800 students who met at another time in 40 separate labs with 20 students is counted once in the "100+" column in the class section column and 40 times under the "20-29" column of the class subsections table.
Number of Class Sections with Undergraduates Enrolled
Undergraduate Class Size (number of sections) (Total includes courses with enrollment of 1)
2-9 |
10-19 |
20-29 |
30-39 |
40-49 |
50-99 |
100+ |
Total |
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| All Undergraduate Programs Combined | ||||||||
CLASS SECTIONS |
139 | 426 | 240 | 59 | 10 | 22 | 2 | 902 |
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS |
13 | 29 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 82 |
| Macon Campus Traditional Program Only | ||||||||
CLASS SECTIONS |
83 | 247 | 158 | 42 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 557 |
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS |
13 | 29 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 75 |
| Atlanta Campus Nursing Program Only | ||||||||
CLASS SECTIONS |
1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Adult Regional Academic Center Program Only | ||||||||
CLASS SECTIONS |
54 | 170 | 74 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 315 |
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Atlanta Campus Upper Division Business Only | ||||||||
CLASS SECTIONS |
1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
CLASS SUB- SECTIONS |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |