<p>Is it true one third of MIT undergrads major in EECS?</p>
<p>No.</p>
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<p>As you can see, while a third of the school is in non-computer science related engineering, EECS only accounts for just under one fifth of the undergraduate enrollment.</p>
<p>To clarify, last year’s graduation stats give about 25% of students graduating with a degree from the EECS department and 49% graduating with an engineering degree of some type. </p>
<p>I guess they put the EE kids with the engineering percentages in Timur’s stats above, but it is true that 25% of the school is in the department of electrical engineering and computer science.</p>
<p>Well, actually, that 1/3 figure might actually not be far off (and in fact, the true figure might actually be HIGHER than 1/3). We’re not talking about graduating from a particular subject, just majoring in it. And the fact is, plenty of people try to major in EECS but find that it is either too hard or they don’t like it, so they eventually switch majors to something else, and then graduate from that other major. </p>
<p>Hence, if you just took a snapshot of the entire undergrad population and looked what the students were majoring in (not counting freshman and undeclared sophomores), that 1/3 figure might actually be right. Whether 1/3 will actually graduate with an EECS degree is a different question. We’re just talking about what they are majoring in right now.</p>
<p>There are some students lost, but it doesn’t look like that many. </p>
<p>According to the Tech, 22% of my class [declared</a> EECS](<a href=“http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N23/23majors.23n.html]declared”>http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N23/23majors.23n.html) freshman year. According to the latest stats, 19% of my class is [still</a> EECS](<a href=“Statistics & Reports | MIT Registrar”>Statistics & Reports | MIT Registrar). Of course, the final graduation stats for my class aren’t in yet.</p>