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Teaching load & class size

How many studentsan instructor teaches in a year, and how that relates to their salary. Median students taught per instructor, and median salary per student taught (that year’s salary ÷ students). Classes nobody enrolled in are excluded.

Median students taught per instructor

Median students taught per instructor per fiscal year

Fiscal year	Georgia Tech	UGA	Georgia State	Kennesaw State	Georgia Southern	West Georgia	Georgia Gwinnett	Valdosta State	Augusta
FY2025	85	83	105	148	182	109	148	104	74
FY2024	90	75	99	141	166	109	154	102	—
FY2023	87	76	95	134	161	112	147	99	—

Georgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw StateGeorgia SouthernWest GeorgiaGeorgia GwinnettValdosta StateAugusta

Median salary per student taught

The instructor’s full-year salary divided by the students they taught that year (not the tuition a student pays). It is lower where instructors teach large sections and higher where they teach few, small, or graduate classes — a description of teaching mix, not of efficiency or worth.

Median salary per student taught, per fiscal year

Fiscal year	Georgia Tech	UGA	Georgia State	Kennesaw State	Georgia Southern	West Georgia	Georgia Gwinnett	Valdosta State

Georgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw StateGeorgia SouthernWest GeorgiaGeorgia GwinnettValdosta StateAugusta

Teaching load by grant level

Median students taught per year, with teaching faculty grouped by lifetime federal grant dollars. It is sometimes assumed that heavy grant-getters teach far fewer students; in this data that relationship is weak, and appears only at the highest grant levels.

Institution	No federal grant	Under $1M	$1M–$5M	$5M+
Georgia Tech	87n=1669	108n=395	121n=238	104n=41
UGA	78n=2732	52n=91	60n=107	46n=29
Georgia State

Students taught = Σ enrollment across an instructor’s sections that fiscal year (enrollment > 0). Co-scheduled / cross-listed sections aren’t deduplicated, so team-taught or heavily cross-listed loads can be over-counted — applied uniformly across institutions. Not credit-weighted (a 1-credit seminar and a 3-credit lecture each count their heads), because credit hours are well-populated only at the banner schools, not GT.

FY2025	$1,592	$1,300	$418	$362	$459	$429	$448	$398	$965
FY2024	$1,436	$1,325	$425	$358	$457	$441	$425	$409	—
FY2023	$1,389	$1,296	$430	$357	$456	$463	$435	$437	—
FY2022	$1,358	$1,282	$404	$353	$475	$472	$501	$430	—
FY2021	$1,344	$1,261	$361	$332	$449	$409	$429	$378	—
FY2020	$1,376	$1,236	$320	$318	$456	$418	$362	$401	—
FY2019	$1,337	$1,180	$323	$323	$428	$399	$375	$416	—
FY2018	$1,345	$1,138	$320	$318	$417	$405	$372	$407	—
FY2017	$1,331	$1,154	$326	$304	$433	$402	$392	$399	—
FY2016	$1,308	$1,057	$314	$314	$418	$401	$380	$409	—
FY2015	$1,323	$1,085	$604	$305	$413	$387	$340	$414	—