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Instructional Faculty and Class Size

Number of Instructional Faculty Members (excluding clinicians)  Fall 2008

	Full-time	Part-time (FTE)
Total number of instructional faculty*	2,354	144
Total number who are women	858
Total number with doctorate, first professional, or other highest level degree	2,136
*See the supplemental table below for a more comprehensive counting of faculty at the University of Toronto. 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. Source: University of Toronto

The above chart is a highly conservative count of faculty members, and does not give the full picture of the breadth of our teaching and research complement.
Below is a more comprehensive count of our faculty:

Total University of Toronto Faculty, Fall 2008

Faculty Category	Full-Time	Part-Time	Total	Total FTEs (est)
Professorial (Tenure/Tenure-Stream, Non-Tenure Stream) Faculty	2,097	163	2,260	2,185
Teaching-Stream Faculty	302	130	432	378
Term-limited Instructional Faculty (Sessional, Stipendary)		1,079	1,079	216
Clinical Faculty	2,080	1,833	3,913	2,351
Other	651	2,056	2,707	1,071
Total	5,130	5,261	10,391	6,201

First-Entry Undergraduate Class Size by year level, 2008

Class Sections	1st Year		2nd Year		3rd Year		4th Year
	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)
< 30 students	300	48.4%	271	29.0%	504	43.3%	540	79.9%
30-60 students	81	13.0%	244	26.2%	439	37.7%	112	16.5%
61-100 students	60	9.6%	183	19.6%	145	12.5%	19	2.7%
101-250 students	114	18.4%	202	21.7%	69	5.9%	6	0.9%
251+ students	66	10.6%	34	3.6%	8	0.7%	0	0.0%
Total	619	100.0%	993	100.0%	1,164	100.0%	676	100.0%

 

Class Sub Sections (i.e. lab, tutorial)	1st Year		2nd Year		3rd Year		4th Year
	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)
< 20 students	411	34.4%	429	38.6%	257	49.7%	215	70.4%
20-40 students	538	45.1%	467	42.1%	175	33.8%	66	20.7%
41+ students	245	20.5%	214	19.3%	85	16.4%	27	8.9%
Total	1,193	100.0%	1,110	100.0%	517	100.0%	305	100.0%
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.

One-on-One Instruction Classes	1st Year	2nd Year	3rd Year	4th Year
# of classes	7	84	101	178
enrolment	91	309	713	1,186

For detailed information by campus click here.

Second-Entry Undergraduate Class Size by year level, 2008

Class Sections	1st Year		2nd Year		3rd Year		4th Year
	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)	(#)	(%)
< 30 students	83	32.4%	26	34.7%	45	52.0%	27	50.9%
30-60 students	127	49.3%	13	17.7%	5	5.3%	1	0.9%
61-100 students	32	12.5%	18	23.8%	20	23.4%	15	28.3%
101-250 students	15	5.8%	18	23.8%	17	19.3%	11	19.8%
251+ students	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Total	257	100.0%	74	100.0%	86	100.0%	53	100.0%

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.

One-on-One Instruction Classes	1st Year	2nd Year	3rd Year	4th Year
# of classes	8	8	8	32
enrolment	1,569	41	25	420
Second-entry undergraduate programs include: Consecutive Education, Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy. These are all located on the St. George Campus. Source: University of Toronto

• First-Entry Undergraduate Class Size by Campus