Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

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

This likely explains why Michigan uses so many more TAs to teach classes.

Higher student to faculty ratio = more TAs

That explains nothing. Your logic is flawed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

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

This likely explains why Michigan uses so many more TAs to teach classes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

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

This likely explains why Michigan uses so many more TAs to teach classes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

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

This likely explains why Michigan uses so many more TAs to teach classes.

Anonymous wrote:Mother of a kid who had exactly the same choices and chose Michigan for the Big 10 experience and the diversity. Also liked Ann Arbor a lot more than Wash U, although the area around Wash U is lovely. He is an econ major too. He is loving it and does not regret his decision at all. As at most universities, his larger classes are taught by professors in a lecture format and there are weekly discussion groups of about 20 kids led by TAs. I was, honestly, surprised by the number of small classes that he has taken. He did not start the econ program until sophomore year and freshman year he did not have any classes larger than 30. This is partially by design - there are numerous freshman-only seminars - and partly by luck, as he happened to select history and science classes that turned out to be small. What's the downside? If you want to work in finance, it is almost impossible to do so easily unless you are in the business school. All the recruiting happens through finance clubs devoted to various areas of business and it's extremely difficult to get into those clubs if you are not in Ross.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

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

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

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.

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

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.