Harvard University employs about 1,352 full-time administrators for every 1,000 undergraduate students enrolled at the university, an analysis conducted by The College Fix found.

This is more than a nine percent increase from the 2013-14 school year, when there were 1,240 administrators per 1,000 students, according to the analysis, which used data provided by Harvard to the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

During the 2021-22 school year, the most recent year for which data are available, Harvard had 10,120 full-time administrators and support staff on its payroll; in contrast, it had 3,899 full-time teaching and instructional staffers. The total number of undergrads that year was 7,483.

[This explains why college costs so much, and this is what taxpayers will eat even at private universities with “debt forgiveness” on student loans. The only solution to the student debt crisis is to heavily tax capital gains on college endowments and to cancel any more financial support for student loans. The sharp collapse of the financial support for tuition will force colleges to economize and get rid of their administrative overhead. — Ed]