Student to Teaching and Non-teaching Staff Ratios in Autonomous Universities

Mr Yee Jenn Jong asked the Minister for Education for each year since 2000 what is (i) the number of students per full-time faculty member; (ii) the number of students per teaching staff including full-time faculty and part-time teaching staff; and (iii) the number of students per non-teaching staff including administrators, full-time research staff and full-time research support staff, for all our autonomous universities and broken down by university.

Mr Heng Swee Keat: For the three Autonomous Universities, ie NUS, NTU and SMU, the ratios of average student-to-faculty for full-time faculty, average student-to-faculty for full-time and part-time faculty, and average student-to-non-teaching staff are 17.8, 16.7 and 5.6 respectively in 2013. This is an improvement over the corresponding ratio of 19.3, 18.5, and 8.0 in 2006 5 .

Data for SUTD and SIT have been excluded as they have only attained the status of Autonomous Universities in 2012 and 2014 respectively.

Note(s) to Question No(s) :

5 2006 is the first year when all three Universities were Autonomous Universities.