<p>Which majors are the least popular? </p>
<p>Which majors are the most popular?</p>
<p>The biggest departments include Economics, Government, Psychology, English, and Biology.</p>
<p>The smallest majors are often student-designed, so they have only one concentrator. I had a friend who majored in Aesthetics. IIRC, only one person in my class got an undergrad degree in Sanskrit. There are probably a bunch of other fields that only have one or two concentrators at a time.</p>
<p>How popular are fields such as Theology or Visual Arts (Film or studio)?</p>
<p>Visual Arts (which we used to call Visual & Environmental Studies) is bigger than Religion, IIRC.</p>
<p>It is still called Visual and Environmental Studies, or VES for short. As for Biology, as of this Fall, Biology will not be a concentration choice. Rather, students must choose from the new cluster of life sciences concentrations that they can find at <a href="http://www.lifescience.fas.harvard.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.lifescience.fas.harvard.edu</a>.</p>
<p>xjayz-Do you have any sense on how big each of the new lifesci concentrations is going to be? My gut feeling is (from biggest to smallest), MCB, OEB, Neurobio/HEB (seems to be a LOT of HEB concentrators, especially since there's only a few advisors in the dept!!), (chem), Social Cog Neuro, CPB.</p>
<p>Since I'm vegging at home, I looked up the number of concentrators for each on the official Harvard College facebook (as of 8/22):</p>
<p>[old] Biochemical Sciences - 229
[old] Biology - 266
[new] Chemical and Physical Biology - 22
[old/new] Chemistry - 87
[new] Human Evolutionary Biology - 51
[new] Molecular and Cellular Biology - 50
[new] Neurobiology - 30
[new] Organismic (or according to the Handbook for Students 2006-2007's Core Requirements Section, Orgasmic) and Evolutionary Biology - 11</p>
<p>I know plenty of students who declared Biology or Biochemical Sciences in our year instead of the new "cluster of life sciences concentrations," so there's definitely a lot of overlap. I guess we can't really know what the numbers in BioAnth and the SocCogNeuro is since they are tracks rather than concentrations... but it's interesting how HEB is a really popular major, relatively speaking.</p>
<p>I'm guessing MCB will be the biggest among the Class of 2010's science/pre-med kids, considering it's such a natural major for pre-meds to take.</p>
<p>Well... I would make fun of you, but just the other day I did a similar thing with the facebook to see if there were any unassigned quads in Adams house (preliminary housing info leaked, once again). Agree with you about MCB booming. Also, I wonder what % of Anthro concentrators are Bio Anthro. Probably a large number.</p>
<p>Hey, just sent you a facebook message. Yeah, I noticed how they took off our room numbers, but I got mine through e-mail, so I guess it's OK.</p>