The Department offers B.A., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Each year the department graduates about fifteen to twenty B.S. majors, eight to fifteen M.S. students, and, usually two to five Ph.D. students. The Department includes four professors, six associate professors and two assistant professors. All but four faculty have been at NDSU for more than ten years. Ten faculty are active researchers while two associate professors concentrate on teaching.
Every faculty member teaches at least one undergraduate and one graduate course each year.
We have five to six seminar courses each year which are not counted in teaching loads. These seminars are specifically in the research areas of the faculty who lead them. Class sizes in courses taught by tenure-track faculty range from five to forty. Each faculty member is expected to regularly apply for external funding. We expect at least one journal submission every year although some faculty do not yet meet this goal.