HKUST - Very poor Staff:Student ratio?

International Students
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<p>It seems like HKUST has a much lover ratio of teaching staff to students than most other countries, and this constantly weighs it down in rankings, like one I see where they got 28/100 points for it.</p>

<p>537 academic staff for 12,600 students. 1:23. It seems like a rather low number compared to most other universities with at least a 1:10 ratio, and universities like Cambridge sporting 1:3.</p>

<p>So, I’m wondering, is this something I should put a lot of weight into? I’m planning on engineering, and everyone seems to say it’s a great school, but are the classes massive? Are student-professor relationships existent?</p>

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<p>Wondering, where do you get the data?</p>

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<p>ummm…well , the HKUST business school has 715 undergraduates and 150 faculty members . So that’s about 1:5</p>

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<p>This is where it’s from: <a href=“http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/resources/download/1357896226765873.pdf[/url]”>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/resources/download/1357896226765873.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The business school has 134 permanent and 15 visiting professors, and 1300 undergrads and 1260 postgrads.</p>

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<p>@asid12345678</p>

<p>I think business school has 715 UG every year, so should be around 2900</p>

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<p>@negotiation</p>

<p>For UK universities, they are in 3 year curriculum so overall enrolled students will be fewer.</p>

<p>HK universities is transforming to 4 year curriculum from 3 year one in this year, so you see the sharp increase in total no. of students.</p>

<p>HK universities are government funded and the funding is proportional to UGC funded students no. Therefore, I am expecting a drop of faculty to student ratio in early years of transformation until faculty are hired due to increased funding.</p>

<p>However, the ratio is still a bit low to international standard. I think it could be the norm of HK universities, as HKUST/HKU/CUHK (HK big 3 universities) are entitled to similar funding structure.</p>