Dartmouth vs UC Berkeley

bluebayou
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:14:20 +0000

venkat:

while I totally agree that INDIVIDUAL class sizes may matter, i.e., 20 students taught by a prof vs. 800, I still don’t see why a small college (TOTAL class size) is better than large. Just bcos Hamilton has less than 1600 students doesn’t necessarily make it any more efficient than a top small-mid sized Uni such as Dartmouth, Stanford or Duke. They obviously have the resources to offer more classes and hire more registrars.

Obviously, many kids prefer a small college feel, while others want to a big campus so that they don’t ahve to participate in discussions, or want big-time D1 sports, but those are only personal preferences and don’t make a college necessarily better one way or another.