FTE Faculty Stats and Other Matters

USA Arch Faculty Data

I have been working with a set of figures obtained from an ACSA Newsletter
19(4) Dec 1989, back page, deriving from the NAAB. They are:

83/84 84/85 85/86 86/87 87/88 88/89
F/T Faculty 1761 1766 1698 1851 1707 1763
P/T Faculty 1586 1623 1335 1451 1644 1771

Design studio totals 2217 2274 2207 2095 2141 2136

Total FTE 2433 2091 2129 2166 2623 2188

P/T as Prop of whole 28% 16% 20% 15% 35% 19%

Assuming I have interpreted them correctly, there is a distinct oddity in
the 1987/88 data. I find it difficult to believe that the P/T ratio more
than doubled in a single year. There was an obvious typo in the ACSA
figures, so there might be others in the data.

If anyone obtains better and more recent data, I would be much obliged if
they could pass it on. I never had any trouble obtaining public data from
US organisations while I was there, but I have a devil of a time trying to
extract it now that I am in Aus. My requests just seem to disappear into a
black-hole. Maybe if they would just stop putting domestic postage on the
replies....

Apparently, the AIA or NAAB is about to embark on a massive study of
architectural faculty in conjunction with the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching. Any info about this would also be appreciated.

International Arch Education/Profession Data
For comparison, I have some international data. These were obtained from a
variety of sources and from a variety of dates from 1988 to 1991. Any
corrections are welcomed. I put the reliability at about 80%, as even
finding out how many architects there are is a source of dispute, with
sources giving different figures for the same countries. For what its
worth...

Canada UK France Aus
USA NZ Germ.
Population (mil) 27 248 56 3 52 62 17
No. of Schools 10 93 36 2 30 60 15
No. of Students 2,000 32,000 7,500 430 13,500 25,000 4,300
No. of F/T Perm. Faculty 117 1,707 618 44 - - 259
No. of Architects (Reg.) 4,700 70,000 32,000 900 9,800 50,000 8,500

Schools / 10 Million 4 4 6 7 6 10 9
Students / 10 Million 738 1,290 1,344 1,433 2,596 4,065 2,575
F/T Faculty / 10 Million 43 69 111 147 - - 155
Architects (Reg.)/10 Mil 1,734 2,823 5,735 3,000 1,885 8,130 5,090

Students / School 200 344 208 215 450 417 287
Students / Reg. Architect 0.43 0.46 0.23 0.48 1.38 0.50 0.51
Garry Stevens
Dept of Architectural and Design Science
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA
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