A more apt description would be the number of faculty. Students can be employees, see TAs, but are more akin to customers.
This is another joke...the money spent on education expands in direct relationship to the amount available. College Presidents have no more right to be extorting this money from students than I do.
This of course is the tip of the iceberg, the whole administration portion of any educational experience is out of whack. At the secondary level, take a visit to your local school, notice the number of administrations, dean of this, assistant dean of that. Granted I went to school a half century ago yet at that time there was a principal, vice principal, and two deans, one of boys, one of girls. My three year high school had 1800 students and 90% went on to college, every year. Same school today has the same number of students and three times the number of senior administrators.