<p>Is Princeton more scienceish like MIT or more like a LAC?
I know that the math department is highly ranked, but the history department is also highly ranked.</p>
<p>according to this [url=<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqf3XHDHXQk]link[/url”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqf3XHDHXQk]link[/url</a>] the most popular majors are English Language and Literature, History, Poli Sci and Gov’t.</p>
<p>So if I want to be an engineer, Princeton isn’t a match for me?</p>
<p>no no, the most popular major has nothing to do with their best departments…</p>
<p>Princeton is great in their math and science departments.</p>
<p>thought one of the popular majors would be Economics? last year there were more than 100 graduates out of a class of about 1200</p>
<p>By using the senior thesis database on the Mudd Library website, I’ve compiled a list showing the approximate distribution of undergraduates among all the concentrations for the Class of 2008. :)</p>
<p>113 Economics
95 Politics
90 History
77 Woodrow Wilson School
67 Molecular Biology
60 English
59 Psychology
50 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
43 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
38 Operations Research and Financial Engineering
34 Chemical Engineering
34 Chemistry
34 Religion
30 Art and Archaeology
30 Philosophy
27 Physics
23 Computer Science
22 Anthropology
22 Comparative Literature
21 Sociology
18 Civil and Environmental Engineering
18 Classics
17 Electrical Engineering
17 Mathematics
13 Architecture School
12 East Asian Studies
12 French and Italian
11 Near Eastern Studies
8 Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
5 Astrophysical Sciences
4 Geology
4 Music
4 Slavic Languages and Literature
3 Creative Writing Program
2 Germanic Languages and Literature
1 Engineering, Basic Engineering
1 Independent Concentration</p>
<p>Total no. of theses: 1119
Total no. of graduates in Class of 2008: 1125</p>
<p>Someone’s probably gonna come along and point me to an official published list buried somewhere in the Princeton website, but I had fun reading the thesis titles!</p>
<p>Go to this link.[University</a> Enrollment Statistics « Office of the Registrar](<a href=“http://registrar.princeton.edu/university_enrollment_sta/]University”>University Enrollment Statistics | Office of the Registrar). Click on Degrees conferred and you’ll find stats on degrees from 98 to last year. Most popular last year was economics with 112.</p>
<p>There was a total of 1137 degrees conferred.</p>
<p>Is the Princeton Economics department the best out of all the universities? Why are some people going to Princeton just to study languages?</p>
<p>According to my sample of around 10 Princeton students (not a simple random one by any means, nor sizeable enough to make a statistical conclusion), the most popular major by far was economics.</p>