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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2017-02-21/10-universities-where-tas-teach-the-most-classes

The above information is 7 years old,  but I’m using it to show that Purdue University West Lafayette had the highest percentage of TAs that year listed as primary instructor at 26%.  The lowest percentage of TAs at these ten schools listed was Kansas at 18%.  Michigan was not listed.  Even Purdue with the highest percentage of primary instructor TAs was considerably below 35% . That’s why I doubt the accuracy of that  report from learn.org [/quote]

Along the same topic and since you like US News data, the following shows a stark difference in students-faculty ratio: 
Michigan 15:1. WUSTL 7:1

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/compare/9092-2520/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-vs-washington-university-in-st-louis?xwalk_id=170976&xwalk_id=179867[/quote

Class size is one of the most useless criteria once used by USNews.  They obviously reqlized how many privates were manipulating numbers to get their class sizes as low as possible, such as including professors but not graduate students in their figures 
That’s why they got rid of it.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/ranking-criteria-and-weights#:~:text=In%20short%2C%20five%20ranking%20factors%20that%20were%20in,reported%20by%20schools%20or%20obtainable%20from%20third-party%20sources.

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Actually class size is very important to many, more so than the useless criteria they use now[/quote]

It’s only useful if it’s not artificially manipulated.  From USNWR:

“alumni giving, class size, high school class standing, the proportion of instructional faculty with terminal degrees, and the proportion of graduates who borrowed federal loans – were removed from the formula to place greater focus on outcomes measures and to rely on data universally reported by schools or obtainable from third-party sources.”

Notice the last line.  Those student/faculty ratios were provide directly by the institutions.  It turns out, after many years, USNews finally figured out that many privates lie.   The same lies that helped to raise their rankings, once removed, have now contributed to their more accurate rankings. [/quote]

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