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A Century of MIT at a GlanceThere are 998 faculty members at MIT, a 20-year high, according to the official tally taken on October 31st of each year. There were 1003 faculty members in the fall of 1983 (AY1984) the all-time high. [Faculty members are defined as Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors.] (See M.I.T. Numbers.) The total number of students (10,253) is slightly below the all-time high of 10,340, which was reached in the fall of 2003 (AY2004). There is currently an all-time high number of women students at the Institute (3,638) split almost evenly between undergraduates (1817) and graduate students (1821). These numbers have risen virtually every year since the early ’60s.
The number of international students (not including permanent residents) at MIT is 2,480, as of October 31 (AY2006), down from the all-time high figure of 2,629 in 2002 (AY2003). Asian students comprise the largest population of international students, with 1208 members. The number of graduate students reached its current high in the fall of 2003, with 6,228 registered students. In the fall of 1979 (AY1980) the number of students studying for advanced degrees surpassed the number of undergraduate students for the first time. This fall (AY2007), the ratio of graduate students to undergraduate students was 6 to 4. This article was a collaboration between the Faculty Newsletter and the Office of the Provost, Institutional Research, who provided all the charts and data. Particular thanks is given to Lydia Snover and Nancy Wong.
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