Columbia Discipline Variety

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<p><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/cc%20undergraduate%20degrees%20by%20program%20of%20study%202007-2008.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/cc%20undergraduate%20degrees%20by%20program%20of%20study%202007-2008.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/en%20undergraduate%20degrees%20by%20program%20of%20study%202007-2008.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/en%20undergraduate%20degrees%20by%20program%20of%20study%202007-2008.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Data for the Class of 2008</p>

<p>This is what makes me proud that I'm at Columbia. There really is a diversity of interest in what kids are studying. I've tried to explain this in my posts, but now I actually found numbers. These numbers are an indication that Columbia is truly all rounded, so you can't go wrong no matter what you want to study. In my calculation I have added up majors + concentrators + joint-majors/2. Here what I noticed:</p>

<p>Columbia College</p>

<p>Econ and Poli Sci are the largest: 148 & 170.5 respectively
English and History round up the big four at: 114 and 122 respectively</p>

<p>mid size (30+):</p>

<p>Psych: 68 + 32/2 (from neuro) = 84
Bio: 44 + 19/2 (from bio chem) + 32/2 (from neuro) = 69.5
Math: 46 + 14 (from econ math) = 60
Art history: 33
Anthro: 33
Philosophy: 30</p>

<p>and for those of you who worry about sciences (phy and chem), they too are well stocked at: 15 and 18.5 respectively.</p>

<p>SEAS from largest:</p>

<p>Civil: 41
BME: 38
Mech E: 38
Engineering Management Systems: 36
Electrical: 35
Applied Math: 34
Chem E: 29
Comp Sci: 27
Financial Engineering: 20
Operations Research: 19
Earth and Environmental: 15
Applied Physics: 15
Industrial Engineering: 12
Material Science: 8</p>

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<p>As for SEAS, if you add EMS+OR+IE (the fluff majors which are all the same department), they go way to the top. Surprised so many Civil Engineers… I don’t know a single person who was one. Did you get Comp E in there – part of Comp Sci or EE?</p>

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<p>wow the new curriculum is giving the department enrollment quite the beating! my graduating class had almost twice as many</p>

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<p>I put comp E 1/2 in comp and 1/2 in EE, blasphemy?</p>

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<p>yeah BME is brutal</p>

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<p>Yeah, English! Keep pounding away on those TI-89s whilst I write about subterranean sex in Victorian novels!</p>

<p>(This has been a gentle attempt to renew the CC/SEAS culture war. Give in to your baser impulses and join the fray.)</p>

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<p>^my TI-89 signs your future pay checks, I wouldn’t be so cocky if I were you.</p>

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<p>Math is up. That’s a good sign. Foreign language majors are kinda low (all in the single digits). I expected more.</p>

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<p>I’d like to root for my Applied Math major, but the bigger that (and the IEOR quasi-engineering majors) gets, the less SEAS becomes of an “engineering school”. Definitely of two minds.</p>

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<p>No, but the lack of disclosure makes us have less than full faith in our trusty reporter.</p>

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<p>^Well i posted the link smart a$$, it isn’t reporting, it’s summarizing.</p>

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<p>Thank god the foreign languages and the “studies” (urban, american, af-am,womens, asian-am, etc) aren’t up there. That makes me very happy and proud of my lesser CC brethren :)</p>

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<p>32 neuro majors? really? Crap, I thought there was a lot more!</p>

<p>and I thought there’d be a lot less than 38 in BME. Interesting class, mine is.</p>