<p>Ex:</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna: 1300</p>
<p>Harvard: Around 6600</p>
<p>Large private universities generally have more resources, higher endowments, etc. they are able to admit such a large number of students, LACs are smaller and generally not as research focused so they simply can’t have that many students on the school.</p>
<p>Facilities, property, budgets, and especially, prerogative:</p>
<p>LACs, I think, list among their benefits the fact that from freshman to senior, a student will almost never be in a class larger than 50 students… and most classes will be under about 25 students.</p>
<p>So being small is just the way they like it.</p>
<p>It’s not due to resources. There are LACs with very high resources per students and there are universities with a great deal less.</p>
<p>It’s due to mission and approach. LACs emphasize the creation of learning communities, whether or not their faculty are also fine scholars and researchers. They want students to get to know each other and learn from each other. Classes tend to be smaller on average as well.</p>
<p>-- and increased access to professors.</p>
<p>LAC students accept those pros along with typical LAC limitations: fewer majors and courses, fewer research opportunities, and less national and international prestige.</p>