<p>What are good questions a prospective college applicant can ask a professor in a department you are considering majoring in?</p>
<p>How many students are in the average class? (If class size is important to you, that is.)</p>
<p>What do people do with their degree?</p>
<p>How many students go onto graduate school in this field? What calibre of graduate schools do they go onto?</p>
<p>How many courses are offered in the department?</p>
<p>If the department is small and not a lot of different courses are offered, are professors flexible about guiding independent study or creating new classes with very small enrollment? (My Latin professor did this… we had a class of 3 people, including me, studying Roman epistolography. It was a really neat experience :))</p>
<p>Just some ideas off the top of my head.</p>