Instructional Spending Per Student

CrewDad
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 03:00:54 +0000

Mastadon wrote: as well as raises questions about the correlation between endowment/spending per student and quality of undergraduate education

Instructional spending per student, in many instances, doesn’t seem to correlate with the US News ranking or the perceived quality of education. The fact that #2 Amherst’s instructional spending is ~36% less than that of #1 Williams, or that Davidson’s expenditures were * less than half * of Williams yet Davidson is still ranked in the US News top 10, is not what most would have expected.
Nor would anyone have expected Duke’s educational spending to be ~ 47% less than that of Yale but their US News rank is #9 and # 3 respectively.

18 Hamilton's instructional spending is only ~ 24% less than that of Williams.

12 Vassar ~ 30 % < Williams

12 Colby ~50% < Williams

12 Colgate ~40% < Williams

10 Davidson ~ 53% < Williams

8 Carleton ~ 35% < Williams

8 Claremont Mckenna ~ 35% < Williams

6 Middlebury ~ 40% < Williams

3 Swarthmore ~ 23% < Williams

2 Amherst ~ 36% < Williams