Word: ratio
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Another area where Harvard bit the dust was faculty resources, which counted for 20 percent, based on such factors as student-faculty ratio, faculty doctoral degrees, percent of part-time faculty, average salary and class size (excluding sections). We were ranked 11th; Yale and Princeton were 6th and 7th, with Caltech taking the top spot. You would think that with Harvard's "best in the world" policy of hiring faculty, we could do better than a measly 11th. Then again, U.S. News did not include faculty name recognition as a category...
...hoping that the relevant administrators will do everything in their power to put Harvard back on top next year. Pump those dollars out of the alumni. Hire hundreds of new faculty members to make the student-faculty ratio smaller. Put more classes into the Core to cut down on class size...
...three schools' faculty-to-student ratios ultimately determined the rankings, Elfin said. "There is little difference among the top three schools. It's infinitesimal," he said. "The key factor was that Harvard has a faculty-to-student ratio of 12-to-1 while Yale's is 9-to-1 and Princeton's is 8-to-1. When you have very small differences, numbers like that make the difference...
From there, Clinton pleaded passionately for treatment on demand and drug education for all. Under Bush, two-thirds of the $13.1 billion federal antidrug budget went for interdiction and law enforcement, only one-third for education and treatment. "I'll invert that ratio," Clinton promised...
...however, doctors marry doctors and lawyers marry bankers, without any help from the same-sex-marriage lobby. Stone Age men might have sat around calculating waist-to-hip ratios on their abacuses, but modern men are more likely to be trying to figure out your ratio of assets to debts. This is sad, of course, from the point of view of female upward mobility. But unless the market for trophy wives greatly expands, looks will remain a poor substitute for impressive job titles and higher degrees...