Faculty Ratio

[JBVirtuoso]

<p>What does “faculty” include? Are they talking just professors, or does this also include the night cleaning crew?</p>

[world_changer]

<p>I think it’s typically referring to professors:students.</p>

[molliebatmit]

<p>The instructions for calculating the student:faculty ratio are listed on a school’s common data set (for example, [here](<a href=“MIT Institutional Research):”>MIT Institutional Research)):</a>

The following definition of full-time instructional faculty is used by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its annual Faculty Compensation Survey (the part time definitions are not used by AAUP). Instructional Faculty is defined as those members of the instructional-research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with released time for research.

Report the Fall 2006 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.

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