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> class of 1400 Is it a normal thing in the west? The largest class I’ve been part of in India had 105 students and I thought that was nuts. 1400 is like craz

• omegaham 5y ago
  1400 is huge. It's common at large state universities for the introductory classes to have somewhere between 200 and 300 students. The professor lectures in a large auditorium, and grading (and questions!) are delegated to a staff of TAs. If you get a good TA and have some good classmates, it's totally fine. Unfortunately, it's common for your TA to be crap, at which point grading becomes a nightmare. I avoided all of this by taking introductory classes at the community college, where they teach the same material to classes of 25 students.
• gruez 5y ago
  "class of 1400" just means a given course has an enrollment of 1400 in a given semester, not necessarily that they packed 1400 students into one lecture hall and taught them all at the same time.