<p>Can someone help me out with the rankings of lowest student:faculty ratios of the top national universities from US News, or any other half-credible source.</p>
<p>3:1
California Institute of Technogy</p>
<p>4:1
University of Chicago</p>
<p>5:1
Princeton University (NJ)
Rice University (TX)</p>
<p>6:1
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University (CA)
Yale University (CT)</p>
<p>7:1
Emory University (GA)
Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
Columbia University (NY)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Northwestern University (IL)
Washington University in St. Louis
Harvard University (MA)</p>
<p>8:1
Tufts University (MA)
Duke University (NC)
Howard University (DC)</p>
<p>9:1
Brandeis University (MA)
Dartmouth College (NH)
Brown University (RI)
Catholic University of America (DC)
Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)
Vanderbilt University (TN)
University of Rochester (NY)<br>
Lehigh University (PA) </p>
<p>10:1
Tulane University (LA)
Clark University (MA)
Cornell University (NY)
Drexel University (PA)
University of Denver
Univ. of Southern California
Wake Forest University (NC)
Carnegie Mellon University (PA)</p>
<p>Who is counted under "faculty" for this data?</p>
<p>The common data instructions call for the university to:</p>
<p>Report the Fall 2005 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>If that's true wow @ Caltech.</p>
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If that's true wow @ Caltech.
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It's really one of the major selling points for Caltech. That statistic doesn't generally mean extremely small classes though, but rather it is indicative of the amount of reseach opportunities for undergrads.</p>