<p>Also, I agree that the student-to-faculty ratio (STR) is a good barometer, but it very much depends by college (and by major) in ratio to one:</p>
<p>Architecture & Environmental Design 17.7
Engineering 21.3
Education & Integrative Studies 21.9
Agriculture 23.8
Science 25.7
Collins College (Hospitality Management) 26.8
Business Administration 28.8
Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences 30.8</p>
<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.csupomona.edu/~irar/stats/faculty/sfr/docs/SFR_CY_2011_2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.csupomona.edu/~irar/stats/faculty/sfr/docs/SFR_CY_2011_2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>What’s worse is that the under-performing colleges of Business Administration and Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences account for 43 percent of the total number of classes offered at Cal Poly. In addition, on a first-hand anecdotal account, these two colleges, alongside Education & Integrative Studies, have ridiculously low academic standards. In my own personal experience with those colleges, classes are easy As if you do the assignments and go to class. I hope I don’t sound like an elitist jerk, but that’s truly what I, and my peers, have experienced. It’s unfair that putting 2 hours/week of outside study to a 4 unit history or political science class results in an A; whereas, 15 hours/week to a 3 unit engineering class results in a C. ******* dot com offers the ability to see the average GPA per professor, and you can see professors like Dashner in engineering averaging 1.45 GPA per class, Rejali 2.08, Nguyen 1.36, Wang 2.37, Izadi 1.97, Marcoff 1.96, but averages of 3.2-3.5 for classes in history, political science, ethnic studies, economics, and the likes.</p>