New Princeton 2009-2010 Viewbook Available

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<p>Here is a link to the 2009-2010 viewbook for students interested in applying to Princeton. It's an 8 megabyte file so be patient while it loads.</p>

<p>Enjoy.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/Princeton_VB_0910.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/Princeton_VB_0910.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Looks nice. It claims the student-faculty ratio to be 5 to 1. This is lower than it had been, correct?</p>

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<p>Not lower than it had been. </p>

<p>There are 7334 students and 1044 faculty members, so I don’t see how that divides into 1:5.</p>

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<p>I assume the statistic was referring to the undergraduate population, which is lower than 7334.</p>

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<p>And, does the 1044 count only the faculty that teach undergraduates?</p>

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<p>All Princeton faculty members teach undergraduates. There is no separate faculty for graduate students.</p>

<p>From Princeton’s Common Data Set for last year:</p>

<p>"Student to Faculty Ratio</p>

<p>Report the Fall 2008 ratio of full-time equivalent students (full-time plus 1/3 part time) to full-time equivalent instructional faculty (full time plus 1/3 part time). In the ratio calculations, exclude both faculty and students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, business, or public health in which faculty teach virtually only graduate-level students. Do not count undergraduate or graduate student teaching assistants as faculty."</p>

<p>4,924 students and 926 full time equivalent faculty = 5:1</p>

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<p>This has been relatively stable in recent years. I believe that some schools report these numbers by bending the clearly stated rules in the Common Data Set instructions. You’ll also find that faculty numbers are sometimes combined with staff and non-instructional researcher numbers when reported to certain ranking organizations such as THES. See the following:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061104870-post5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061104870-post5.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061127133-post2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061127133-post2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Ahh, I see I see. Thanks.</p>

<p>But Harvard has 2,401 faculty members and 6,714 undergrads. Does that mean (with a 1:7 student faculty ratio) that only about 1000 of those 2401 faculty teach undergrads?</p>

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<p>Yes, that’s correct. After excluding professional school faculty, Harvard’s equivalent numbers are:</p>

<p>6,671 students and 988 full time equivalent faculty = 6.8:1</p>

<p>See page 22 of the Common Data Set: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/Provost_-_CDS2008_2009_Harvard_for_Web_Clean.pdf[/url]”>http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/Provost_-_CDS2008_2009_Harvard_for_Web_Clean.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;