USNWR 2009: Looking at the Data X (Student/Faculty Ratio)

College Search & Selection
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<p>The publication of the 2009 USNWR College Rankings provides an opportunity to compare schools based on a wide variety of data points. In this and in other threads, I urge the reader to think less about the absolute rankings and more about the nature and value-added of the data point being discussed.</p>

<p>I think that this is a pretty important statistic as it tells the students what his/her prospective classroom size is going to look at as well as the competition among students for the faculty's time and resources. </p>

<p>Here is the data for the USWNR Top 50 National Universities and the USNWR Top 25 LACs. </p>

<p>Student/Faculty Ratio , National University</p>

<p>3/1 , Caltech</p>

<p>5/1 , Princeton
5/1 , Rice</p>

<p>6/1 , Yale
6/1 , MIT
6/1 , Stanford
6/1 , U Penn
6/1 , Columbia
6/1 , U Chicago</p>

<p>7/1 , Harvard
7/1 , Northwestern
7/1 , Wash U
7/1 , Emory</p>

<p>8/1 , Duke
8/1 , Dartmouth
8/1 , Brown
8/1 , Tufts
8/1 , Brandeis</p>

<p>9/1 , Vanderbilt
9/1 , USC
9/1 , Lehigh
9/1 , U Rochester
9/1 , Case Western
9/1 , Yeshiva
9/1 , Tulane</p>

<p>10/1 , Cornell
10/1 , Wake Forest</p>

<p>11/1 , Carnegie Mellon
11/1 , Georgetown
11/1 , W&M
11/1 , U Washington
11/1 , Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>12/1 , Notre Dame
12/1 , NYU</p>

<p>13/1 , Boston Coll
13/1 , U Wisconsin</p>

<p>14/1 , U North Carolina
14/1 , Georgia Tech
14/1 , Rensselaer</p>

<p>15/1 , UC Berkeley
15/1 , U Virginia
15/1 , U Michigan</p>

<p>16/1 , UCLA</p>

<p>17/1 , U Illinois
17/1 , UC Santa Barbara
17/1 , Penn State</p>

<p>18/1 , U Texas</p>

<p>19/1 , UCSD
19/1 , UC Davis
19/1 , UC Irvine</p>

<p>22/1 , U Florida</p>

<p>Student/Faculty Ratio , LAC</p>

<p>7/1 , Williams</p>

<p>8/1 , Amherst
8/1 , Swarthmore
8/1 , Pomona
8/1 , Haverford
8/1 , Vassar
8/1 , Harvey Mudd
8/1 , Bryn Mawr</p>

<p>9/1 , Wellesley
9/1 , Middlebury
9/1 , Carleton
9/1 , Claremont McK
9/1 , Wesleyan
9/1 , Grinnell
9/1 , W&L
9/1 , Smith
9/1 , Oberlin
9/1 , US Naval Acad</p>

<p>10/1 , Bowdoin
10/1 , Davidson
10/1 , Colgate
10/1 , Hamilton
10/1 , Colby
10/1 , Bates</p>

<p>11/1 , Macalester</p>

<p>na , US Military Acad</p>

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<p>as i have posted before, MANY of the schools on the above list mis-report their s/f ratios by not including graduate students in their calculations. (i am slowly working on putting together more accurate numbers.)</p>

<p>for this reason, i wouldnt suggest that anyone put much weight into the numbers reported to us news. much of the necessary raw data is available on school websites (via either the common data set or other institutional research publications), however.</p>

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<p>for example, the best s/f ratio i can find for a national university is still caltech, but at 7/1... not 3/1. princeton should likely be 8/1 and duke comes in around 12/1.</p>

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<p>ericatbucknell, what would the more accurate s/f nmbrs be at tufts and UIUC be, do you reckon?</p>