Student Opinions on the USNWR Top 30 Nat’l Universities

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its important to note that though that stat points to smaller class sizes for stanford, it does not necessarily state that the faculty attention is that much better.

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<p>True. But I would say–logically, too–that class sizes and level of faculty attention are highly correlated. ND is substantially behind Stanford in terms of # classes under 20–there’s a ~20% difference. Yet it manages to be more than 20% ahead in this “faculty attention” survey? I would think it would be more comparable, at best.</p>

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btw, though ND only has 55% of classes under 20 total, there is small classes where necessary. For example, the intro to calc class may be large, but almost all the arts and letters courses are much smaller.

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<p>Er, that’s pretty much how it is at Stanford, Harvard, etc. too. Heck, that’s how it is for most top schools (and to a lesser extent at others). But at a school like Stanford, you’ll find that many of the courses that ND makes large are small.</p>