<p>hey can anyone tell me the typical class size at Lehigh University??</p>
<p>i know student faculty ration 9:1 but i need class size also...pls.</p>
<p>An average class size at a school like Lehigh would be slightly warped if you are talking about engineering. Typically in engineering, all students take the same curriculum during freshman year regardless of specific major, and it includes Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, and maybe some Bio. The idea in engineering is to thin the herd during freshman year and move the less motivated students into other majors. Because of this, class sizes tend to be large during freshman year, but get drastically smaller beginning with soph year.</p>
<p>I never knew Lehigh has that system!</p>
<p>IN my essay, I mentioned small class sizes and small student-to-faculty ratio. I also mentioned about helpful professors in my essay.
How much of that is correct??</p>
<p>I did not attend Lehigh. I'm thinking that all engineering programs are about the same everywhere, but I'm also thinking that there could be an exception. I went out to the Lehigh website. They do not talk about a common freshman curriculum the same way as some other schools, but I randomly compared Chem Eng to Mech Eng and the two departments recommended the exact same classes for freshman year (English, Calculus, Physics, Chemistry and either Principles of Eng or Computational Eng).</p>
<p>The following website says the average class size is between 25 and 30. Freshman classes are always larger however. </p>
<p>Of course, Lehigh is not all engineering. In particular, it has a strong business program.</p>
<p>Lehigh is a typical liberal arts college as well.......I saw it myself in a pdf document (I cant remember which one though)</p>
<p>We study the same for 2 years and then we select a major just like any other liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>THe difference here is, we have more choices and very strng engineering and business programs.</p>
<p>I have nothing but respect for Lehigh's reputation and no desire to turn you off of the school. It is true, though, that engineering schools that are not MIT or Caltech are always trying to expand their reputations beyond engineering. I would also say that getting an engineering degree is a "special" process. The freshman curriculum is "always" extremely tough and focused on Calc, Physics, Chem, and Comp Science. Then during soph year, you start to specialized in your particular engineeering discipline. I am just saying that it would be hard to transfer into engineering after not being an engineering major for the first 2 years. You wouldn't have the classes. I don't know the specifics of Lehigh, but I would recommend that you research it more before you think of it as something where you study English for the first 2 years and then you can transfer either into History or Chemical Engineering.</p>
<p>For one thing, do you say on the application form that you are applying for the Engineeriing Program or the Arts and Sciences Program?</p>
<p>Here are the list of departments at Lehigh. Try going to specific departments and looking up the curriculum for that major. At least some will have recommended courses broken down by year of study.</p>