<p>I am looking for a college/university in the Northeast and Mid Atlantic area. I would like to go to a big school but I do not want to have classes with like 600 kids in them. So if you could help me list some that would be great.</p>
<p>Not sure how you define “big” but here is the data for all schools in the USNWR Top 75 and their relative percentages of class sizes. For others as well, I include data on colleges in all regions of the USA. </p>
<p>Undergrads , % classes < 20 students , 20-50 students , >50 students , School</p>
<p>40212 , 35.0% , 46.2% , 18.8% , OHIO STATE
38430 , 21.9% , 55.8% , 22.3% , TEXAS A&M
37988 , 32.0% , 50.4% , 17.6% , PENN STATE
37389 , 36.3% , 40.4% , 23.3% , U TEXAS
36337 , 23.6% , 55.0% , 21.4% , MICHIGAN ST
34654 , 39.8% , 38.1% , 22.1% , U FLORIDA
32557 , 43.0% , 41.1% , 15.9% , U MINNESOTA
31761 , 36.8% , 48.2% , 15.0% , PURDUE
31626 , 33.8% , 47.4% , 18.8% , INDIANA U
31417 , 38.7% , 42.9% , 18.4% , U ILLINOIS
30912 , 47.1% , 42.5% , 10.4% , BYU
30750 , 43.8% , 36.9% , 19.3% , U WISCONSIN
29397 , 34.9% , 48.1% , 17.0% , U WASHINGTON
28031 , 41.5% , 37.5% , 21.0% , RUTGERS
26536 , 54.1% , 25.5% , 20.4% , UCLA
26431 , 35.2% , 51.1% , 13.7% , U MARYLAND
25994 , 45.9% , 36.3% , 17.8% , U MICHIGAN
25467 , 36.6% , 51.9% , 11.5% , U GEORGIA
25151 , 60.3% , 24.6% , 15.1% , UC BERKELEY
24209 , 33.9% , 38.1% , 28.0% , UC DAVIS
23567 , 24.3% , 54.3% , 21.4% , VIRGINIA TECH
22518 , 41.9% , 28.6% , 29.5% , UC SAN DIEGO
22122 , 44.3% , 36.8% , 18.9% , UC IRVINE
21269 , 59.7% , 28.9% , 11.4% , NYU
20823 , 49.7% , 40.8% , 9.5% , U IOWA
18892 , 48.7% , 33.9% , 17.4% , UC S BARBARA
18534 , 55.7% , 34.2% , 10.1% , Boston University
17895 , 44.3% , 45.2% , 10.5% , U N CAROLINA
17427 , 44.5% , 39.5% , 16.0% , U PITTSBURGH
16765 , 44.7% , 40.6% , 14.7% , U CONNECTICUT
16608 , 63.5% , 25.3% , 11.2% , USC
16384 , 39.8% , 47.8% , 12.4% , U DELAWARE
15208 , 50.0% , 36.0% , 14.0% , U VIRGINIA
15135 , 44.7% , 34.4% , 20.9% , UC S CRUZ
14713 , 48.8% , 39.7% , 11.5% , CLEMSON
13846 , 58.1% , 25.1% , 16.8% , Cornell
13651 , 63.4% , 28.8% , 7.8% , Syracuse
12973 , 39.7% , 38.5% , 21.8% , GEORGIA TECH
10590 , 56.4% , 33.4% , 10.2% , George Washington
10422 , 51.7% , 42.9% , 5.4% , U Miami
9756 , 72.9% , 19.8% , 7.3% , U Penn
9060 , 47.2% , 45.2% , 7.6% , Boston College
8476 , 75.3% , 17.7% , 7.0% , Northwestern
8363 , 55.0% , 35.6% , 9.4% , Notre Dame
7994 , 49.5% , 49.5% , 1.0% , Fordham
7495 , 77.2% , 14.4% , 8.4% , Columbia
7092 , 56.4% , 38.1% , 5.5% , Georgetown
6985 , 74.2% , 17.1% , 8.7% , Wash U
6890 , 68.2% , 24.8% , 7.0% , Emory
6837 , 67.7% , 25.7% , 6.6% , Vanderbilt
6749 , 65.2% , 29.7% , 5.1% , Tulane
6678 , 77.1% , 14.8% , 8.1% , Harvard
6532 , 72.2% , 16.1% , 11.7% , Stanford
6496 , 71.4% , 23.6% , 5.0% , Duke
6240 , 58.1% , 34.5% , 7.4% , SMU
6095 , 70.6% , 20.2% , 9.2% , Brown
5998 , 64.1% , 24.9% , 11.0% , Carnegie Mellon
5850 , 44.7% , 47.9% , 7.4% , WILLIAM & MARY
5680 , 64.7% , 24.2% , 11.1% , Johns Hopkins
5394 , 52.6% , 37.1% , 10.3% , Rensselaer
5355 , 61.1% , 26.2% , 12.7% , U Rochester
5277 , 78.5% , 14.3% , 7.2% , Yale
5044 , 72.8% , 22.1% , 5.1% , Tufts
5022 , 73.2% , 22.3% , 4.5% , U Chicago
4981 , 74.9% , 16.0% , 9.1% , Princeton
4876 , 48.4% , 41.6% , 10.0% , Lehigh
4476 , 55.8% , 42.0% , 2.2% , Wake Forest
4356 , 59.4% , 29.7% , 10.9% , Case Western
4153 , 65.2% , 22.1% , 12.7% , MIT
4147 , 62.5% , 28.8% , 8.7% , Dartmouth
3404 , 67.8% , 29.5% , 2.7% , Pepperdine
3252 , 68.8% , 22.0% , 9.2% , Worcester
3196 , 68.7% , 24.7% , 6.6% , Brandeis
3154 , 65.4% , 26.5% , 8.1% , Rice
3044 , 65.2% , 34.4% , 0.4% , Yeshiva
921 , 70.8% , 22.8% , 6.4% , Caltech</p>
<p>Beware %'s as a large school that offers many many classes will have more actual classes that are small than a small school that offers a higher % of small classes, but not nearly as many TOTAL classes.</p>
<p>Every school that’s a decent size (20,000 +) will always have those freshmen classes that have 500+ kids, like your speech and freshman comp classes. But, I know at Purdue, they have a lot of small classes in the sciences and landscape architecture.</p>
<p>Often honors classes are smaller. </p>
<p>Also, I doubt that freshmen comp classes are that big. Can you imagine the prof who’d have to grade the essays in a mega class?!? At some schools, English Comp classes are kept under 30. Speech classes (where students actually have to give speeches) are also smaller.</p>