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CREATED TO PROVIDE STUDENTS AN AVENUE TO COLLABORATE AND SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL/VOCATIONAL/CULTURAL EVENTS Pantnagar is a non-affiliating university and its academic activities are organized through its constituent colleges (faculties),which run large undergraduate (UG) programs. All Masters and PhD students are part of College of Post Graduate Studie
s, however they have strong association with one of the other colleges as per their academic major. Distributed among colleges and other units of the university, there are 763 teachers and officers 59 technical personnel, 631 administrative personnel and 1425 class III employees, amounting to a total staff strength of 2878 against a students strength of 2800-3000, which makes teacher taught ratio of about 1:6 and student-staff ratio about 1:1. The University campus at Pantnagar is spread in an area of 12,661-acre (51.24 km2) which makes it the second largest university in the world, in terms of contiguous area. Berry College occupies 28,000-acre (110 km2) of contiguous land, and Paul Smith's College occupies 14,200-acre (57 km2) of land in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, but neither is a university. Duke University occupies 8,709-acre (35.24 km2), but they are not contiguous. The United States Air Force Academy has a contiguous 18,000-acre (73 km2) at its disposal, but it is not a university. Dartmouth College, with a large land grant, owns more than 50,000-acre (200 km2),but only 269 acres (109 ha) of those are part of the campus.Stanford University owns 8,183-acre (33.12 km2), which makes it the third largest university in the world, in terms of contiguous area.Sewanee: The University of the South occupies 13,000-acre (53 km2) in its "Domain", making it largest contiguous university campus.
