Many of the institutions with the highest number of noninstructional staff members per 1,000 students are medical colleges or health-science centers, or comprise them. Private nonprofit institutions on the list had missions more varied than those of public ones. Among the private institutions were liberal-arts institutions like Amherst College and Bowdoin College.
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4-year public institutions
| 1. | Oregon Health & Science U. | 3,008 | 1,039 |
| 2. | U. of California at San Francisco | 3,026 | 974 |
| 3. | U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | 1,898 | 827 |
| 4. | U. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | 2,477 | 820 |
| 5. | Eastern Virginia Medical School | 513 | 468 |
| 6. | State U. of New York Upstate Medical U. | 684 | 462 |
| 7. | U. of Texas Medical Branch | 1,456 | 459 |
| 8. | U. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 1,405 | 449 |
| 9. | State U. of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn | 766 | 412 |
| 10. | U. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 1,956 | 408 |
| 11. | U. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | 1,315 | 388 |
| 12. | Texas Tech U. Health Sciences Center | 1,929 | 386 |
| 13. | U. of Nebraska Medical Center | 1,451 | 383 |
| 14. | Medical U. of South Carolina | 1,086 | 363 |
| 15. | U. of Mississippi | 7,699 | 332 |
| 16. | Augusta U. | 2,715 | 326 |
| 17. | U. of Tennessee Health Science Center | 983 | 320 |
| 18. | U. of North Carolina School of the Arts | 300 | 309 |
| 19. | Louisiana State U. Health Sciences Center-New Orleans | 832 | 298 |
| 20. | U. of Maryland at Baltimore | 1,850 | 292 |
| | Median for 710 institutions | 502 | 68 |
4-year private nonprofit institutions
| 1. | Weill Cornell Medicine | 3,992 | 3,850 |
| 2. | Rush U. | 6,034 | 2,399 |
| 3. | Albany Medical College | 1,166 | 1,418 |
| 4. | Baylor College of Medicine | 2,149 | 1,367 |
| 5. | California Institute of Technology | 2,678 | 1,188 |
| 6. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 10,727 | 947 |
| 7. | Princeton U. | 4,536 | 557 |
| 8. | Yale U. | 5,960 | 481 |
| 9. | Bank Street College of Education | 276 | 425 |
| 10. | Duke U. | 6,625 | 414 |
| 11. | Thomas Jefferson U. | 1,495 | 402 |
| 12. | U. of Rochester | 4,384 | 395 |
| 13. | Harvard U. | 11,676 | 394 |
| 14. | U. of Chicago | 5,881 | 382 |
| 15. | Dartmouth College | 2,394 | 377 |
| 16. | Stanford U. | 6,289 | 370 |
| 17. | Amherst College | 649 | 362 |
| 18. | Cornell U. | 7,874 | 359 |
| 19. | Gallaudet U. | 530 | 359 |
| 20. | Bowdoin College | 643 | 357 |
| | Median for 1,086 institutions | 199 | 96 |
Note: The number of full-time non-instructional staff members excludes medical-staff members, like doctors, and employees of hospitals affiliated with the institutions. Ratios were calculated based on fall-2015 enrollment of all full-time and part-time students. Institutions with fewer than 500 students and all for-profit institutions were excluded from the table. The number of staff members per 1,000 students is greater than the actual number of staff members in cases in which the institution has fewer than 1,000 students.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data