does NU really have over 10,000 graduate students to its 8k UG?

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<p>for some reason I had teh impression that it was 8k=UG, 4k=UG, with a good emphasis on UG teaching, BUT I see in the following link that total enrollment=18k. so I guess graduate students are more plentiful and one can probably assume granted more resources than UG’s.</p>

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<p>They are not granted more resources. NU is focused primarily on the undergraduate colleges. Bear in mind, however that NU has:</p>

<p>A law school (downtown)
A medical school (downtown)
A business school (Evanston)
A normal graduate school (TAs!)
And graduate programs in all the professional schools not listed (Music, Communications, Medill, Engineering)</p>

<p>When you consider that all of the post-graduate degrees take more than 4 years, the number of grad students can quickly dwarf the number of undergrads. But I assure you, the faculty and the administration are focused on the undergraduate college- especially the new president Morty Schapiro, former president of Williams.</p>

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<p>also Northwestern has powerhouse graduate schools in many fields- Ranked law, business, and medical schools. Why complain?</p>

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<p>The schools that have large ug:g ratios are the state universities. People don’t usually think of them as being undergrad focused. In fact, it’s usually the opposite.</p>