<p>Can anyone find a link with data on the number of undergraduate math majors at Stanford? I looked and couldnt find it. Also, is there data on how many of them write theses? I found a small selection of recent theses on the web, but it wasn't clear to me whether this was all of them.
I started looking for this because someone told me a number that seemed suspiciously small, namely 4 per year; I would have guessed more like 10.</p>
<p>No way. Four per year is way low. I think 10 is also low. The honors sequence last year had 25 or 30 kids during winter quarter, and most of them are probably math majors. And then there are others who didn't do honors. In fact, I just searched Facebook, and it comes up with 45 people in my class who list themselves as math majors.</p>
<p>As for how many write theses, I have no idea.</p>
<p>According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Stanford awarded a total of 1,756 bachelors degrees between July 1, 2005, and June 30, 2006. Just 54 of those were in the general category of “mathematics and statistics.”</p>
<p>As for the percent of math majors writing theses, you should just contact the Stanford Math Department directly. I’m sure they could give that info to you.</p>
<p>Thanks! That's exactly the sort of data I was looking for. It says there are 106 undergrad math majors out of 6996 undergraduate majors; with double majors all counted twice. It also says there are 6689 undergraduates enrolled.</p>
<p>Actually it's not out of 6996. There are 3997 people out there who haven't declared their majors yet (probably freshmen and sophomore) :)</p>
<p>Yes, there are 106 declared math majors and 6996 total declared majors.
As I indicated, albeit obliquely, this is counting "majors" and not "people", anyone with 2 majors is counted twice. This leave open questions of how many people this corresponds to and how many majors per person; if 3997 undergraduates havent declared a major then less than 3000 of them -have-, so the average student has more than 2 majors. This makes me wonder how significant the "major" label really is- are majors less demanding at Stanford than at peer instititions?</p>
<p>Here's the answer: The 6996 total declared majors number includes undeclared students. It doesn't foot with the subtotals for undergraduates in the various schools (of which there are only three with undergraduates: H&S, Engineering, and Earth Sciences). Those add up to about 3500 majors, out of about 3200 students who have declared majors, which makes some sense. (The number of students who haven't declared majors is 3497, not 3997). Including 105 Math majors and another 49 Math/CS majors. The average per class is probably a little less than half of those numbers.</p>
<p>The number of double majors looks like about 300 (the difference between 6996 majors and 6689 undergraduates). That's probably weighted more towards seniors, so figure 10% of each class winds up with a double major. But that doesn't count combined programs that are classified as a single major (like Math/CS).</p>