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Burying the lede: Yale now has more administrators than undergrads.

• sokoloff 5y ago
  First I laughed loudly at a funny quip. Then I thought, “I better check to see if that’s a joke or not.” It’s not a joke. From the article: “the number of Yale’s administrators today exceeds the number of faculty — 5,066 compared to 4,937” From https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts, undergrad enrollment is 4,664. Wow.
  • AnimalMuppet 5y ago
    So administrators > faculty > undergrads. Double wow.
    • hguant 5y ago
      A lot of research institutions will have a greater number of graduate students than undergraduate students, as grad students are (supposedly) the focus of the organization - they're the ones who are training to be members of the academy after all! A quick google shows that Yale has 7,357 graduate students enrolled for the 2020-2021 academic year. While the number of administrative faculty ballooning like this is absurd (one is reminded of the University of California system building a new billion dollar[0] campus _solely for administrators_), it makes more sense in the context of ~12,000 students, and ~5,000 faculty. [0] - I don't recall the exact number off of the top of my head, all I can remember was that it seemed extravagant and absurd.
• Fomite 5y ago
  Given the existence of a Law School, a Business School, a School of Public Health and a Medical School, this isn't at all surprising to me. Those generate tremendous needs for administrative support, and won't necessarily see a single undergraduate.