<p>We toured USF and were impressed. Our tour guide was in the honors program and came in with credits for some classes through AP, etc, and my D would do the same. The tour guide was a Junior and said she had only taken 3-4 lecture hall size classes in her years there, and that the rest were around 25-30 students. We saw a couple classrooms that seemed to match that number of 20+ students.<br>
My D then talked to a friend who is now a freshman at USF and she is in honors, but is taking 2 lecture hall size classes and one of her other ones has 40-50 students! This doesn't seem to match the picture that was painted on the tour.
What is the reality of class size...with honors in the mix, during freshman year and beyond?</p>
<p>I doubt many undergraduate students attending any of Florida’s state universities have a majority of their courses with only 25-30 students enrolled…the schools just can’t afford doing it. I’d guess the friend’s description is more accurate. I wasn’t in the honors program at USF, but I graduated in 2012 with over 190 semester hour credits and two undergraduate degrees from different colleges at USF…most of my classes had in excess of 25-30 students. Hopefully a current USF student doing the honors track at USF will chime in here with class size numbers.</p>
<p>Hi! I’m currently a freshman/first year student at USF with 47 transfer hours. I do have two classes this semester that are lecture halls with 200 students… however three of my other classes have between 20-30 students in them. It’s mainly the math classes and sciences classes that have the huge lecture halls. As well as freshmen classes such as film. The lecture halls do not feel extremely huge however</p>
<p>So as a grad student having to take several math pre-reqs am I looking forward to sharing space with 200+ students in the same class? </p>