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Colleges with Low Student to Faculty Ratio

This page lists colleges with the lower Student to Faculty Ratio (a faculty teaches/cares less students which means probably more attention/support on each student) in U.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the lowest students to faculty ratio of 3 to 1 where 1,716 faculty or instructional staffs teach 11,886 undergraduate students in United States.
Colleges whose programs are focused on certificate, associate, and/or special subjects such as arts and music are excluded from the ranking. We aslo exclude schools which total student population is less than 1,000.
The next table shows the schools that have low Student to Faculty Ratio with total number of students and faculty. Note that the actual ratio is computed based on number of undergraduate students and instructional staffs who teach undergraduate programs. It may differ from the number of faculty shown in below table. You may want to check colleges having the Highest Student to Faculty Ratio.
Colleges with Low Student to Faculty Ratio
NameStudent to Faculty Ratio# of Students# of Full-time Faculty# of Part-time Faculty
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA
3 to 111,8861,391325
2Loma Linda University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLoma Linda, CA
3 to 14,21037410
3Duke University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDurham, NC
5 to 117,4994,280141
4Princeton University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPrinceton, NJ
5 to 19,1371,052189
5City University of Seattle
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSeattle, WA
5 to 12,00727358
6University of Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
5 to 118,5662,755440
7Yale University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew Haven, CT
5 to 115,5642,881819
8Carnegie Mellon University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPittsburgh, PA
5 to 115,8881,387361
9Stanford University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsStanford, CA
6 to 118,6254,218588
10Northwestern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEvanston, IL
6 to 123,8562,442417