US News 2017 rankings

PennCAS2014
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 15:51:32 +0000

Actually, alexandre is wrong about Penn (which we’ve already discussed elsewhere on CC…). Despite the fact that, as we’ve mentioned in previous threads, Penn’s S-F ratio would be, at most, about 8-1 pretty much anyway you calculate it, none of the aforementioned ways of calculating Penn’s student to faculty ratio are appropriate because of Penn’s One University Policy which makes nearly all professors at the University open to all students. Thus the only way to calculate Penn’s student to faculty ratio is to use the total number of full time and part time, undergraduate and graduate Students (24,876) and the total number of faculty (4645) which would give you a student to faculty ratio of 5.3:1. But we can round up to 6:1. Because of Penn’s One University Policy, students are not only taking classes with professors in the undergraduate divisions of their schools, but instead, they are taking classes across the university’s graduate, professional, and undergraduate schools. Students from the engineering school are doing research with Penn Med professors while taking a course at Penn Law on the ethical implications of the ACA. Because there is so much more cross-enrollment and because the resources of all of Penn’s schools and institutes are so radically accessible to all students regardless of their primary field of study, the only way to truly account for the ‘wear and tear’ on faculty is to view all students and all faculty together. To divide them up by school at Penn just wouldn’t make sense because you would be discounting an enormous portion of the students who actually rely on those same faculty members. But no matter which way you slice it, Penn’s S-F ratio is very low; about 6:1