<p>I’ve already written two posts which the system deleted. </p>
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<li><p>sakky, many departments have functions other than graduating students. For instance, consider the language courses. They teach students languages for various reasons and disciplines, and oftent times students will not major or even minor in a language they take four classes in. Using only number or profs and graduating students does not take this into account at all. It only takes a very limited amount of departmental demand into account. For instance, how many of the engineering students heavily use the math department? Physics? Certainly the math departments do. Anyway, obviously requirements influence demand, profs and number of degrees granted is very limited and not too useful.</p></li>
<li><p>Is one of the goals of maximalization levelling out student to faculty ratio amongst departments, or perhaps the number of students using classes in a deparment and the number of profs in that deparment?</p></li>
<li><p>Master Katarn, sorry to seem rude. I was just mocking how extreme your position was. I also challenge your notion that one can only get experience in one’s major. While this may essentially be true in engineering, I would say in many ways it is not. 1) you are required to take 6 social science/humanities courses, obviously outside your major and 2) the essentially “common core” of the basic physics, math, chem, bio. Now, I could be wrong (as engineering is one of the largest things on campus about which I know the least), but I would say that you can get some experience outside of your specific subject because of these two things. I would guess that you wouldn’t be allowed into very many (if any) classes in engineering fields outside of your major, so if that is what you mean, then alright, but I would say if you are talking about engineering only, you should make that explicit, and that for many (if not all) students, getting experience outside of their fields in other fields is easy- in fact, required.</p></li>
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