Jacob Baron ‘10
“To get at class sizes more directly, let’s turn to the U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings. . . . [T]he rankings list the percentage of classes at each institution with fewer than 20 students and the percentage with 50 or more students. In 2005, 65% of Dartmouth’s classes had enrollments under 20. That’s seventh in the Ivy League — only better than Cornell! And fully 10% had 50 or more students — tied with Princeton and Brown, worse than Columbia, Penn and Yale. So much for the myth that Dartmouth’s classes are smaller than its competitors’.
“. . . Other stastistics tell a similar story. Dartmouth’s 2005 student-to-faculty ratio of 8:1 was the third worst in the Ivy League, only lower than Cornell’s and Brown’s. Since 2002 it has improved from 9:1. The improvement is good, but we still don’t approach the best. Yale’s ratio is 6:1; Princeton’s, 5:1. And the percentage of our classes with over 50 students has actually increased.”
–The Dartmouth, Apr. 16, 2007
available at http://thedartmouth.com/2007/04/16/opinion/priorities/print/
