Grading the Colleges by Average Class Size

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<p>^ That list is sorted by % of classes with less than 20 students.
Here’s how I’d grade them after also factoring in the % of classes with 50 or more students:</p>

<p>4.0 New School
3.9 Immaculata
3.8 Edgewood College, Cardinal Stritch, Nova
3.7 University of Chicago
3.6 Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Northwestern</p>

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“Here’s the part that’s often overlooked: It’s not so much the number of small classes, but the number of large classes that determines what fraction of their time students spend in large classes. Each small class is, by definition, small, serving only a few students, while each big class has, by definition, many students registered for it.”</p>