<p>Just to throw out one wrinkle: if it’s a real college (meaning, no - or very few - graduate students), the professors devote more attention to undergraduates, and the classes are likely smaller. On the other hand, universities are crawling with TAs. Even a reasonably diligent professor is going to be quicker</p>
<p>(a) to give out an assignment to the 150 people in his class, knowing that it’ll requires his 5 TAs each to read and grade 30 papers,</p>
<p>than he would be</p>
<p>(b) to give out an assignment to the 30 people in his class, knowing it’ll require HIM to read and grade 30 papers.</p>