I am happy that you are trying to be as complete and honest as possible in reporting your statistics, because as I have said, these stats can be massaged. I would connect with folks at the professional community of “institutional researchers” at campuses nationwide. I might also connect with the folks who collect the “Common Data Set” at the National Bureau of Educational Statistics at the Department of Education. My job was to collect data for our school and report them to the Office of Institutional Research. They didn’t question my methodology much, and I was never given a clear directive on exactly how to do these FTE calculations.

I hope this helps. If not, send me an email or give me a ring and perhaps I can help you figure out where to go next.

All the best.

Our College is trying to get an accurate faculty-to-student ratio to report to the Board and post to our facts on our website. I am unsure of the exact formula to use. If I use student FTE/faculty FTE, I get a much lower number than has been reported in the past. Can you let me know the most statndard formula that is used? Thank you for your time.