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I have a Dutch CS degree, we had about 200 new freshmen every year. 40 seems excessively low for popular degrees.
by Tijdreiziger 3y ago
I have a Dutch CS degree, we had about 200 new freshmen every year. 40 seems excessively low for popular degrees.
- em-bee 3y agosame in austria and germany. undergrad lectures usually have hundreds of students.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoYou can have multiple sections of the same course. At the university I went to, there were about ~150 CS students per year. The very largest classes were 50 students each, with 3 sections of the same course, sometimes taught by the same professor, sometimes taught by different professors. As you progressed through the program, the number of "every CS major takes this course" courses reduced, and most classes were 20-something students.
- Ekaros 3y agoSimilar in Finland. Courses like math and physics which were required were common for more than one program. Thus even if programs were small these first classes ended up being massive. And there were actually multiple of those classes even then between multiple Departments...