<p>Lower division is larger, at 350-400 per class. (lower division biology classes for non-majors are smaller, at 200ish)</p>
<p>If you take specialized classes, classes will be small. Lab courses are small. The classes with 350 people are ones everyone needs to take to graduate, such as genetics or biochemistry. Biology has only been recently impacted so we may not be able to see the effects at the upper division level courses yet. I suspect they’ll get smaller.</p>
<p>Honestly though, take the Regents offer, unless you have a big reason not to (NOT for prestige reasons). Classes are getting cut and it’s ridiculous. I’m a 4th year with 200 units and I still couldn’t get into a class I wanted to take this quarter. If I had Regents, I would be in that class now. (To be fair, it was a popular class with a 25 student capacity. I had no problem getting into the other classes I wanted) You can also pick the time and schedule you want and you will be able to graduate on time/early because you’ll never have to defer taking a class because you couldn’t get in</p>