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Enrollment is for programs, but course credits are tabulated by subject code (not program). It's possible that students at the university taking foreign languag

Enrollment is for programs, but course credits are tabulated by subject code (not program). It's possible that students at the university taking foreign languages as actual courses (and not just transferring high school credits) count towards the credit (and revenue) total. You can see similar things in other programs (look at geography/geology) where'd you might expect a lot of non-major's to take a course in. EDIT: Or most blatantly, look at math. Pulling in ~20 million dollars of revenue on ~120 program enrollments with an FTE:Enrolled ratio of 3. The credits are clearly from non-major'd students taking courses offered.

ethbr1 3y ago
And that was the thinking at the engineering school I went to. We offered an English major. Why? Because engineers should take a fair number of English courses as part of their major, and you attract the best teaching talent if you have an actual program, even if you only have a few explicitly-majoring students. Eliminating foreign language requirements seems insane to me, though. How much of the world is missing to you without a second language?
codemac 3y ago
Thank you! Great clarification.