Salaries at the Naval PG School are high, and the faculty-student ratio is very low

Yow.

Salaries for full professors at the Naval Postgraduate School average $162,000, while assistant profs get an average of $137,000, according to an article in the October issue of Proceedings, which just caught up with me. I wonder how many of those profs actually are military retirees, getting pensions on top of salaries.

Plus, there are 718 civilian faculty members — for 1,800 students. I guess they have lots of classes with just 2.5 students?

Now, I likes me the NPS. I think it produced a lot of good work on unconventional warfare over the last 10 years — much more than almost all Army institutions, interestingly. That said, the salaries strike me as excessive, as does the faculty/student ratio. Even for living in California.

Now, getting $162,000 for having to live in Montgomery, Alabama while pretending to teach at the Air War College — that I can understand. And I wouldn’t do it for twice that. (But I don’t think I am gonna be asked to, either.)

BTW, I think I wasn’t clear enough in my point yesterday about the Fat Leonard scandal vs. the USS Gerald Ford scandal: Which amounts to a bigger abuse of the taxpayer? Me, I say the old-school carrier.