<p>Does anyone know the list of Harvard departments by the number of undergraduates in each concentration? (Like Econ is the largest, then Gov’t…)</p>
<p>What? I mean the math department is probably the shortest, followed by physics. I think the longest is the art department. Of course data like this is hard to come by.</p>
<p>Actually if you go to [FAS</a> Handbook for Students: Table of Contents](<a href=“http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/index.html]FAS”>http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/index.html), you can look up the sizes of each department. Offhand, I recall the stats department and the folklore and mythology department being two of the smallest. Some of the larger ones are economics and government.</p>
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<p>lol aren’t you a HS junior?</p>
<p>The government database at [this url](<a href=“College Navigator - Harvard University”>College Navigator - Harvard University) will give the number of students
by concentration for each of the Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral areas on
a single page which makes it easy to compare.</p>
<p>(Click on the Program Majors selection)</p>
<p>This number is the actual number graduating rather than the 3 year sum of
people who have declared the concentration.</p>
<p>Looks like the smallest are German and Latin with only one undergrad graduate each. But who’d have thought Astronomy/Astrophysics would only have two?</p>
<p>Fascinating. I love that website. Harvard is really pre-professional.</p>
<p>But it also makes it clear if you don’t major in biology, economics, or government you’ve got a good chance of having a small college experience.</p>
<p>It mostly shows that college itself is preprofessional these days; taking as a measure of this the numbers of bio, econ or gov’t majors as a percentage of degrees granted at Harvard, it is similar to that of other big-name universities–including, notably, the “intellectual” University of Chicago (mostly because of its econ, admittedly). It also shows that LACs are on average less pre-professional (by that measure), again not surprising. Of course, one could argue that we don’t know the plans all of these people have and maybe more of them are pre-professional at Harvard, but the data can’t tell us.</p>