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<p>Student teacher ratio the lowest among prestigious universities? If not, is it among the top few? Where does it stand?</p>

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<p>Keep in mind that the student-teacher ratio is not always a direct indication of the contact you will get with faculty. For this, you should probably look at the percentage of small and large classes, or the number of seminar-style classes.</p>

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<p>tokyo is absolutely right. Many people are designated "faculty" who never teach a class.</p>

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<p>No, Princeton University has a 5 to 1 ratio, which is somewhat misleading as tokyorevalation has correctly pointed out. CalTech is listed at 3 to 1. Yale, Stanford, Duke and Columbia at 6 to 1. Chicago is also 6 to 1, and, according to a former grad school prof, would not allow grad students to teach any classes ( I really don't know if this is true, I am just repeating what I was told.)</p>

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<p>Luckily, Princeton does have a lot of seminar-style classes, and I often sign-up for them. The only classes I've taken that were over 20 people were the classes that are requirements for multiple departments and requirements for medical/veterinary school. So far thats 2 out of 10.</p>

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<p>you know officers at financial aid office are also considered as faculty right???</p>

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Chicago is also 6 to 1, and, according to a former grad school prof, would not allow grad students to teach any classes ( I really don't know if this is true, I am just repeating what I was told.)

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No, they're allowed</a> to teach introductory courses, particularly languages.</p>

<p>I agree with everyone who said that a student-faculty ratio is misleading. I would add that it's particularly misleading because course sizes vary immensely from one department to the next. For detailed information about course sizes and enrollment at Chicago, see the schedule of courses.</p>

<p><a href="http://timeschedules.uchicago.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://timeschedules.uchicago.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>For comparison purposes,
Duke: <a href="http://www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/&lt;/a>
UNC: <a href="http://www.unc.edu/clsched/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.unc.edu/clsched/&lt;/a>
Dartmouth: <a href="http://oracle-www.dartmouth.edu/dart/groucho/timetable.main%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://oracle-www.dartmouth.edu/dart/groucho/timetable.main&lt;/a>
Princeton: <a href="http://registrar1.princeton.edu/course/upcome/list/dept.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://registrar1.princeton.edu/course/upcome/list/dept.cfm&lt;/a>
WUStL: <a href="https://acadinfo.wustl.edu/WUCrsL/WUCrsL.asp?SID=%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://acadinfo.wustl.edu/WUCrsL/WUCrsL.asp?SID=&lt;/a>
Rice: <a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Ereg/course/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reg/course/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Here's a breakdown of class size at Chicago that you might find useful. I'm not entirely sure the link will work. If not, go to collgedata.com, click on the search area, then search for "university of chicago." When that comes up, click on "academics" and you'll get a breakdown of class size. You can do this for any college in their database.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg04_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=327&previousPageSection=page_collegeMatch&popupNetCostDetail=falseundefined%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg04_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=327&previousPageSection=page_collegeMatch&popupNetCostDetail=falseundefined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Tarhunt, the link does work. The "academics" section, when you search for any college or university displays exactly the kind of information I described. Good link!</p>

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<p>I found Warbler's link really helpful, but it also helps to take into account that some of these schools are larger than others and therefore have more course offerings. Put Williams's course catalog next to Cornell's and you'll see what I mean.</p>