This is something that definitely needs explaining. Student experience. Information and advice about applying to Oxford and giving more detail on the student experience itself, including forthcoming events, is regularly posted on our Admissions pages. This gives information on the students who have applied to our undergraduate courses, received offers and been admitted, over the last five years. Some groups remain under-represented in our community. The student-faculty ratio at Miami University--Oxford is 17:1, and the school has 31.1% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. It seems that QS’s policy is to include any sort of research staff, whether or not they do any teaching, in the category of faculty. In a broader sense, a student-to-faculty ratio may also tell you a few things about the … Discussion and analysis of international university rankings and topics related to the quality of higher education. Degree: B.S. The university is associated with 11 winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, five in physics and 16 in medicine. There is a very interes... Something about the QS "Peer Review" This work includes moving our UNIQ residential programme online in order to counter the isolation that some are feeling at this uncertain time and bring to life all that the University has to offer prospective students, wherever they may be. The Imperial site indicates 1,114 academic staff and 1,856 research staff (FTE 2006-7), a total of 2,970 academic and research staff combined. Something strange about QS’s data is that it refers to a headcount of 13,078 and 3,593 FTE undergraduates. Something especially striking about the THES~QS rankings this year is that British universities have done spectacularly well overall while getting miserable scores, comparatively speaking, on the citations section. The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world’s second oldest surviving university. Anyone wishing to contact Richard Holmes without worrying about ending up in comments can go to rjholmes99@yahoo.com. You'll get full access to our website, print and digital editions. According to HESA Oxford has 13 students per faculty. The HESA ratio is 9.4. We have to remember that this component does not measure the absolute numbers of citations but the number per faculty. According to the Princeton site, there are more than 850 FTE faculty and 7,055 students, a ratio of 8.3. This produces student faculty ratios that are noticeably better than those that can be calculated from, and sometimes specifically stated in, the universities’ web sites or that are provided by other sources. The data reveals steady progress towards our journey of diversifying our student body, as well as evidence that this work is far from over. This means, very ironically, that this measure, which is supposed to be a proxy for teaching quality, is to a large extent a reflection of a university’s commitment to research since the employment of large numbers of researchers, or even librarians and computer programmers, would lead to an improvement in this ratio. Cambridge and Harvard The THES-QS rankings c... What Happened to Cardiff?