<p>What is the average class size for first year engineers?</p>
<p>huge… math classes up to 100, computer science classes up to 500 (though they haven’t done that in a while, they try to split it to 2 sections of 250 now). welcome to state school education… for the record, i like big classes sometimes, and they do have discussion sections for some classes which are smaller (cs discussions are ~45 ppl).</p>
<p>my biggest class was ~180 and all of my discussions were 20 people or less.</p>
<p>oh you asked about engineers. nevermind.
…this post was completely pointless I guess.</p>
<p>but there’s the information for anyone who wants to know about class sizes in the college!</p>
<p>My first year I had a 400 person class and I was in the college, bioethics… Astronomy was 150 people… But then I had foreign language classes of 10-15 and a math class with 7 of us… It depends. Most intro classes are huge though. Psych was 400 people too.</p>
<p>First year physics/chem will be 300-400 lectures, 15-20 person labs because they’re taught outside of the e-school.
Your intro-engineering class will be 20-30.
Intro CS class will be ~100, 15-20 in your lab.
Math 30-40 with a 15-20 “fourth hour” help session.</p>
<p>Basically, most of your intro classes will be rather large, but you will ALWAYS be taught by a professor and you will ALWAYS have a smaller lab/discussion/fourth hour. Once you get into your major classes second year, that number goes WAY down. Most second year classes, outside of Physics 2, is 30-50. Bu third year, down to 20. By fourth year, well, I’ve had classes with 8 people.</p>
<p>intro cs will still be 45 in a lab as far as i have been told. oh, budget cuts. the 150 person class is in the fall. it is 250 in the spring, 2 sections = 500.</p>
<p>Holy crap! Things have changed since second year…</p>
<p>Yeah it’s ridiculous, between my 3 labs I work with over 120 kids. My 2nd semester working it was 3 TAs for 30-40 kids, now it is 2 TAs for 45 kids. :(</p>
<p>I’m going to see if someone will ask for the stats to be done by school. Nusing, Architecture, and Public Policy are probably dragging the overall stats down. These are not up to date, but they were the stats a couple years ago. Again, this includes all seven schools. Classes in the College of Arts & Sciences and School of Engineering are clearly going to be larger than classes in the Schools of Nursing and Architecture.</p>
<p>47% of classes are less than 20 students
84% of classes are less than 50
7% are more than 100</p>