We often have as many as seventy students in the first year classes, a number that often winnows itself down to around 50 in second year. But because the University controls admission and the School plays virtually no role in admission decisions, and because the University is committed to honoring the interests of students as they explore the riches of the University s curriculum, these numbers can vary from year to year. Normally, then, there are about 250 architecture students if we include the students in the freshman courses. To staff the School s courses there are normally about 20 full-time faculty, although in any particular year that number varies. Faculty members are on leave, visitors are teaching special courses, adjunct professors are brought in for special purposes, and so on.
Faculty members teach all courses.
Graduate students serve as teaching assistants in courses taught during the first two years, serving as assistants to a professor and never as the sole instructors in a course. Normally, then, there are about 20 faculty for the full complement of 250 undergraduate students and sixteen graduate students. Many architecture programs are much larger, and a few are smaller. Studios are at the heart of the program. They are time consuming.