US News 2017 rankings

IzzoOne
Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:16:26 +0000

Alexandre,

UVA has an academic budget of $1.39B for 22K students, or an average of $63K per student. Penn has an academic budget of $2.99B for 24.8K students, or about $121K per student. That is about 90% more per student. A lot of that shows up in the student/faculty ratio. At UVA it is 15:1. At Penn it is 6:1. Average professor salary at Penn was $198K in 2014. At UVA it was $152K in 2014.

At least in this case, I don’t think you can say UVA is as wealthy as Penn.

But, all this is crazy. If you can’t educate someone for $63K per year, something is wildly wrong. $121K per year per student would just be waste if it really were dedicated to education, wouldn’t it? But it isn’t dedicated to education, is it? A lot of this expenditure has nothing to do with educating undergraduates. The amount of time faculty members spend teaching is going down. Their commitment to undergraduate teaching in many cases has very little impact their career.