Instructional Faculty and Class Size

Instructional Faculty and Class Size

Number of instructional faculty members (excluding clinicians) in each category, Fall 2006

Full-time Part-time (FTE)
Total number of instructional faculty: 2,593 152.5
Total number who are women: 874
Total number with doctorate, first professional, or other highest level degree: 2,363

Notes:
"Instructional Faculty" includes Professorial Rank in the Tenure/Tenure-stream and Non-Tenure-stream and Teaching-stream faculty on contracts of 12-months or more.
"Instructional Faculty" excludes those on contracts of less thans 12-months, non-appointed stipendary instructional staff and clinicians not paid directly by the University.

Source: University of Toronto


First-Entry Undergraduate Class Size by year level, Fall 2006

Class Sections

 

1st Year

2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
  (#) (%) (#) (%) (#) (%) (#) (%)
< 30 students 249 42.9 242 26.8 419 37.7 458 76.5
30-60 students 95 16.4 216 23.9 460 41.4 113 18.9
61-100 students 49 8.4 215 23.8 163 14.7 22 3.7
101-250 students 118 20.3 190 21.1 64 5.8 5 0.8
251+ students 70 12.0 39 4.3 6 0.5 1 0.2
TOTAL 581 100% 902 100% 1112 100% 599 100%

Class Sub Sections (i.e. lab, tutorial)

1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
< 20 students 341 26.5 371 34.6 229 44.7 234 70.5
20-40 students 693 53.9 484 45.1 197 38.5 68 20.5
41+ students 251 19.5 217 20.2 86 16.8 30 9.0
TOTAL 1285 100% 1072 100% 512 100% 332 100%

First-entry programs include: Arts & Science, Applied Science and Engineering, Music, Physical Education and Health, Transitional Year program and Woodsworth certificate programs. 

Note: There are a number of one-on-one instruction classes, including independent study, independent research, internships and practicums at our institution. The following are the number of these classes by year level.  These classes are excluded from the above first-entry class sections.

1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
# of classes 9 108 62 194
enrolment 63 309 385 2,029

Second-Entry Undergraduate Programs

Class Sections

  1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
  (#) (%) (#) (%) (#) (%) (#) (%)
< 30 students 75 47.8% 55 42.3% 46 49.5% 86 62.3%
30-60 students 39 24.8% 42 32.3% 12 12.9% 25 18.1%
61-100 students 27 17.2% 20 15.4% 16 17.2% 16 11.6%
101-250 students 16 10.2% 13 10.0% 19 20.4% 11 8.0%
251+ students 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
TOTAL 157 100% 130 100% 93 100% 138 100%

Second-entry undergraduate programs include: Consecutive Education, Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy.

Note: There are a number of one-on-one instruction classes, including independent study, independent research, internships and practicums at our institution. The following are the number of these classes by year level.  These classes are excluded from the above second-entry class sections.

1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
# of classes 10 8 1 34
enrolment 531 491 13 1,863

Source: University of Toronto