Comments on: Student-to-Faculty Ratio: Is It Really An Important Statistic? http://greatcollegeadvice.com/student-to-faculty-ratios-is-it-really-an-important-statistic/ Expert Advice on College Admission Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:09:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Student-to-Faculty Ratios and Choosing the Right College for Applications and Admission http://greatcollegeadvice.com/student-to-faculty-ratios-is-it-really-an-important-statistic/comment-page-1/#comment-4861 Student-to-Faculty Ratios and Choosing the Right College for Applications and Admission Wed, 12 May 2010 15:06:41 +0000 http://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=213#comment-4861 [...] Colleges cite their student-to-faculty ratios and average class size as indicators of the intimacy and quality of the educational experience they offer to students. Rankings systems, such as those employed by US News & World Report and Newsweek, include these statistics among their variables. I’ve been writing about these statistics and what they mean (see these links for more about ratios and class sizes). And I mentioned in a video blog post that these statistics have unintended consequences. [...] [...] Colleges cite their student-to-faculty ratios and average class size as indicators of the intimacy and quality of the educational experience they offer to students. Rankings systems, such as those employed by US News & World Report and Newsweek, include these statistics among their variables. I’ve been writing about these statistics and what they mean (see these links for more about ratios and class sizes). And I mentioned in a video blog post that these statistics have unintended consequences. [...]

]]> By: Student-to-Faculty Ratios: A Bogus Statistic You Should Ignore http://greatcollegeadvice.com/student-to-faculty-ratios-is-it-really-an-important-statistic/comment-page-1/#comment-2808 Student-to-Faculty Ratios: A Bogus Statistic You Should Ignore Wed, 13 May 2009 12:58:12 +0000 http://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=213#comment-2808 [...] actually have a negative impact on class sizes, and you can watch a short video in which I ask some students on one college campus what this this statistic means to [...] [...] actually have a negative impact on class sizes, and you can watch a short video in which I ask some students on one college campus what this this statistic means to [...]

]]> By: Student-to-Faculty Ratio and Small Class Sizes: Unintended (Negative) Consequences http://greatcollegeadvice.com/student-to-faculty-ratios-is-it-really-an-important-statistic/comment-page-1/#comment-1106 Student-to-Faculty Ratio and Small Class Sizes: Unintended (Negative) Consequences Wed, 07 May 2008 14:40:13 +0000 http://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=213#comment-1106 [...] Colleges cite their student-to-faculty ratios and average class size as indicators of the intimacy and quality of the educational experience they offer to students. Rankings systems, such as those employed by US News & World Report and Newsweek, include these statistics among their variables. I’ve been writing about these statistics and what they mean (see these links for more about ratios and class sizes). And I mentioned in a video blog post that these statistics have unintended consequences. [...] [...] Colleges cite their student-to-faculty ratios and average class size as indicators of the intimacy and quality of the educational experience they offer to students. Rankings systems, such as those employed by US News & World Report and Newsweek, include these statistics among their variables. I’ve been writing about these statistics and what they mean (see these links for more about ratios and class sizes). And I mentioned in a video blog post that these statistics have unintended consequences. [...]

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