Are public university classes really taught by assistants, not profs?

[RacinReaver]

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This is not unique to large public universities. Top private universities also liberally employ TA’s to teach large intro. courses (Stanford et al come to mind). The only way to avoid this altogether is to attend a strictly undergraduate institution (e.g. LAC), where the faculty focus is on the college student (rather than post-docs).

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<p>As a counterexample, there’s only one course at Carnegie Mellon that’s allowed to be taught by graduate students (and post-docs) and that’s the freshman writing class (that way, they can keep each class to under 25 students). Everything else is taught by a professor.</p>