a more direct comparison. Normalizing the results of Baboulet for
four selected faculties comparable to NTNU faculties, show a CF of
approximately 9.6 tonnes per student for the Faculty of Medicine,
4.2 tonnes per student for the Faculty of Science, 1.7 tonnes per
student for the Faculty of Architecture and 0.7 tonnes per student for
the faculty of Economy (economic studies are at NTNU allocated to
the faculty of Social Science). These numbers indicate a remarkably
similar structure in the CF per student indicator across different
faculties at the University of Sydney compared to NTNU. It supports
the theory that faculty-specific CFs are related to the nature of the
studies provided. Note that in the Baboulet study, the CF of energy
use is allocated to the different faculties and that the NTNU study
includes the CF from investments.
In many CF inventories of universities, only selected Scope 3
contributions are included. This is also the case in Klein-Banai et al.
(2010) in the work on the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
Comparing this to the NTNU results are therefore not straight
forward. Despite only including selected scope 3 emissions, the
work of Klein-Banai et. al interestingly enough indicate a CF per full
time equivalent enrollment of 8.8 tonnes, approximately twice the
normalized NTNU CF. We assume the reason for this to be a much
higher emission intensities in energy use, and the fact that the UIC
work also includes commuting of both staff and students.