[rayiner]

It’s horrifying to peak into industries you’re unfamiliar with and see what’s going on. It’s like lifting up the rotting log on your property. You just want to quickly put it back down.

WUSTL has more administrators than students:

> Academic staff 4,551 (2024)

> Administrative staff 17,979 (2024)

> Students 16,399 (fall 2024)

University of Munich, a prestigious university in German, has only 8,200 administrators for 54,000 students. So less than half the administrators for more than triple the number of students.

The University of Munich has a budget of 800 million Euro. Excluding the medical school, WUSTL has a budget over $4 billion.

[zippyman55]

One of our local, private, and financially troubled universities has their department hierarchy on line. I was amazed, while recently looking to get in contact with a person about auditing a class, how many "head of XXXX" positions existed in the university directory. It seems way more complicated that it needs to be, and I can see how they would be in financial dire straits.

[itsdrewmiller]

The medical school accounts for half of all staff but less than 10% of the students - your Munich numbers don't seem to include the affiliated hospital.