@warblersrule - The number of majors (or proportion) at a particular university doesn’t necessarily reflect the university’s priorities or strengths; it just reflects the preferences and interests of the undergraduate student body. My comment was in response to someone who implied that Harvard was more liberal arts focused (which, on CC, could either mean more focused on a well-rounded liberal arts and sciences education or could mean more focused on the humanities and social sciences) while Stanford was more focused on technology/CS, engineering, and entrepreneurship.
But Stanford, as a whole university, has serious strengths in the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences in addition to their strengths in engineering and computer science (and business). The important part is the whole university - because there are actually more graduate students at Stanford than there are undergraduates, and the research and scholarship of the professors also helps determine the university’s strong areas. Case in point - the rankings I was referring to are the National Research Council’s rankings of the doctoral programs in those fields. A particular university might have a small department, but that doesn’t mean that it’s weaker or even that the university doesn’t have a strength in that area. It just means that computer science and engineering are more popular than the social sciences at Stanford, but not necessarily that the university is focused that way.