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
FY2025	85	83	105	148
FY2024	90	75	99	141
FY2023	87	76	95	134
FY2022	88	80	96	133
FY2021	92	80	108	133
FY2020	86	79	97	133
FY2019	84	81	98	122
FY2018	86	79	97	118
FY2017	87	76	94	109
FY2016	86	79	93	108
FY2015	84	74	80	102

Georgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw State

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
FY2025	$1,592	$1,300	$418	$362
FY2024	$1,436	$1,325	$425	$358
FY2023	$1,389	$1,296	$430	$357
FY2022	$1,358	$1,282	$404	$353
FY2021	$1,344	$1,261	$361	$332
FY2020	$1,376	$1,236	$320	$318
FY2019	$1,337	$1,180	$323	$323
FY2018	$1,345	$1,138	$320	$318
FY2017	$1,331	$1,154	$326	$304
FY2016	$1,308	$1,057	$314	$314
FY2015	$1,323	$1,085	$604	$305

Georgia TechUGAGeorgia StateKennesaw State

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	84n=5487	67n=56	47n=64	23n=19
Kennesaw State	114n=4316	128n=30	n<10	—

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.