<p>The website says it has a 11:1 student teacher ratio, but a lot of people here said there are 100-500 people in one lecture hall. Is that pretty normal? I just don't want to pay high tuition to go here and don't get any individualized attention... Any comments will be really helpful! Thanks!</p>
<p>It depends on the class. A specialized class may be small, while a more broad class may have more students.</p>
<p>So what class would be a “specialized class”? Because I heard that biology classes are huge and I think they should be small… What are clinics? It said that you talk about what was discussed during the lecture with a smaller group of people… Is that right??</p>
<p>i’m not an nyu student, im a senior in high school, but i took an nyu class last semester as part of a partnership thing. it was a really class, with real nyu students. it was called bilingualism and there were about 32-35 people in the class, which even i was surprised about because i thought nyu had small class sizes. it was a mix of sophomores, juniors, and seniors.</p>
<p>The intro classes are usually very large, as is the case in most colleges.</p>
<p>As at almost all universities, intro-level courses are very large. i.e. Stern micro is taught to all freshmen in one class together in the fall. Spanish I is taught in one gigantic lecture, 675 kids my freshman year as my friend told me. Your recitations will be far smaller, no more than 20 kids, but lectures can be large.</p>
<p>Once you start breaking into upper-level electives or major requirements you’ll start seeing smaller numbers.</p>
<p>For intro level classes, they will most likely be huge. The 11:1 ratio does not apply to lecture halls. However, usually when you take a huge lecture class, you also sign up for recitation or clinic. A class where you review what you learned during lecture and go over homework. Recitation and clinics are much smaller. 15-25 students. Sometimes as small as 5-10 students because some people don’t show up.</p>
<p>Intro level classes are typically very large (50-300 students). However, these classes have recitation sections, in which a TA goes over subject material covered in class in a group of about 10-25 students. Once you get into upper level courses/less popular departments, classes become significantly smaller. For example, I currently have one class with only 12 people in it. I also have two classes with about 150 people and a third class with about 50. The larger classes have recitation sections that meet once a week with 8-20 people.</p>
<p>It depends on what program/college you do (CAS or Stern might have huge intro classes) but the Global Liberal Studies program has classes capped at 25 while most are 15-20, from what I heard at Weekend at the Square, as well as talking to some kids who are in the program.</p>