IU has the lowest Graduate to Undergraduate ratio: Pros or Cons?

<p>I noticed that IU has probably the lowest ratio of graduate students to the undergraduate students across its campus among colleges of similar qualities. Why is that? Any pros or cons for an incoming undergraduate student? Thanks for your input.</p>

<p>why is like that? Any input?</p>

<p>The enormous business school probably skews the numbers by a whole lot. A lot of public universities with big graduate programs do not also have a giant business school like IU does.</p>

<p>Ugrad business school full-time enrollment</p>

<p>IU 4839
UVA 662
MIT 2560
Cornell 692
Berkeley 653
NYU 2389
U N. Carolina 693
U Mich 1074
Rutgers 1600
U Maryland 2750
Mich St 2038
Ohio St 3904
U Iowa 2183
U Minn 2066
U Wis Madison 1705
Purdue 2699
U Nebraska 2846
U Ill 2828
Northwestern 0</p>

<p>Penn State has 5773 in undergrad business, but it is has eight thousand more undergrads than IU.</p>

<p>I doubt if Kelley being so large detracts from support of IU’s graduate programs, since Kelley is full of out of state students who pay 4X more tuition than in-states. IU Bloomington also has some big undergrad major schools that many schools don’t have or are much smaller, like SPEA (1500 students), and big education, music, sports marketing, and theater departments.</p>

<p>Just remember that when comparing the size of undergraduate business schools that some have 4 years of students while some only have 2 years worth of students.</p>

<p>Good point. My number for Kelley is a couple of years old, so it is probably higher now. The career services website has 1656 class of 2012 and 1689 for the class of 2011, so that is 3345 undergrads for juniors and seniors alone. The sophomore class if probably at least 1600 and the freshman direct admits about 600. So they are probably closer to 5400+ undergrads total and 4800+ sophs thru seniors, which is still a huge business school.</p>