Unresolved questions Kaust is set to be the world's sixth wealthiest university - or, if its endowment is measured on a per-student basis, the world's second wealthiest.
Spending per student The amount of money that an institution spends providing a subject (not including the costs of academic staff, since these are already counted in the staff-student ratio) is compared with the volume of students learning the subject to derive a spend-per-student measure.
Europeans spend an average of $10,191 per student, measured at purchasing-power parity, next to $22,476 in America.
We plot them based on the size of their endowment-per-student, which is a good measure of each institution's wealth and thus its ability -- if it had the commitment -- to provide financial aid to low income students.
The states succeeding in this measure tended to spend more money per student, have lower student-teacher ratios and less teacher turnover, provide more public prekindergarten classes and have teachers report satisfaction with their classroom resources.
Their empirical analysisindicates that parental effort and per-student spending have positive effects onstudent achievement, and that some measures of parental effort are affectednegatively by per-student spending.
In any case, administrators argue strenuously that annual cost per student is the wrong measure, because it ignores the taxpayer savings in having students spend fewer years in school, and the benefits of having more of them graduate.
He did not mention that Texas ranks near the bottom on several measures, including among the lowest in education funding per student and spending on the environment.
State governments have been slashing funding, driving per-student spending to historic lows, forcing schools to raise tuition, while controlling costs through salary freezes and other austerity measures.
