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I studied for a popular degree at one of the largest universities in Germany. I never had a course be taught by multiple professors. If a course had many attend
by aniviacat 2y ago
I studied for a popular degree at one of the largest universities in Germany. I never had a course be taught by multiple professors. If a course had many attendants, the room just got bigger.
But that's just my personal experience. I don't know if it's different at other large universities.
- stanford_labrat 2y agoIronically enough, our lecture halls were simply not big enough. The space capped out at around 300-600 people and for popular topics such as programming 101 every semester would easily have 1500+ enrolled.
- alasdair_ 2y agoThe difference is that in Europe, you apply to take a specific subject at university, like Computer Science, and there are only so many spots available so that effectively caps the class sizes. You don't have a bunch of other people taking the class that are not working on that specific degree.
- vineyardlabs 2y agoThis is also the case in the US. The majority of college courses are limited to people within a given major and can't be taken by outside majors with limited exceptions.
- MerManMaid 2y agoIn smaller countries like Germany increasing the class size makes sense but countries like the US, it just doesn't scale. Just to give a better sense, my quick google-fu (so take it with a grain of salt) shows Germany having 2.8M people actively enrolled in college vs the US with 18.1M. So roughly 6x the amount of students.