<p>I've seen various sources that all have different figures for the number of faculty members at Stanford. At the admissions page:</p>
<p><a href="http://admission.stanford.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://admission.stanford.edu/</a></p>
<p>the figure is 1,750. In the viewbook I was sent, it has "1,771 Stanford professoriate." And this has an even higher number (1807):</p>
<p>But that number supposedly includes "tenure-line faculty, senior fellows and center fellows at specified policy centers and institutes, and Medical Center-line faculty."</p>
<p>Stanford usually markets itself on those general numbers. But according to its newest Common Data Set, there are 1,041 total instructional faculty.</p>
<p>The CDS also says the student:faculty ratio is 6.3:1 -- but that figure is undergrads to total faculty (grad and undergrad).</p>
<p>For comparison, UC Berkeley markets itself on about 2,000 faculty. This doesn't include grad student instructors, medical faculty, administrative officers, etc. People usually point to Berkeley's 16:1 ratio, but that's total students (grad and undergrad) to total faculty (2,028). (33,933:2,028 actually comes out to 16.7:1, though the CDS reports 15.3:1 based on slightly different figures; the Stanford CDS has a similar discrepancy.)</p>
<p>If we divide the total number of students at Stanford by the total number of faculty, we get 17747:1041, or 17:1.</p>
<p>Am I doing something wrong? Is the Common Data Set erroneous? Are my conclusions unfounded? It definitely seems odd, though in looking at the class size breakdowns, I find that the ratios seem plausible:</p>
<p>Berkeley:
2-9 - 34%
10-19 - 27%
20-29 - 15%
30-39 - 6%
40-49 - 4%
50-99 - 8%
100+ - 6%</p>
<p>Stanford:
2-9 - 38%
10-19 - 35%
20-29 - 8%
30-39 - 5%
40-49 - 4%
50-99 - 6%
100+ - 4%</p>
<p>So not very different.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>