<p>“Very few undergraduates are interested in subjects like Math, Physics, Classics, and Philosophy so their undergraduate class sizes will be small regardless of whether we are talking about a public college, a private school, or an LAC.”</p>
<p>This is partially true. I would not go so far as to say that “very few” undergrads are interested in such subjects. Roughly half the students at Michigan are enrolled in programs that have 100 or fewer students per graduating class. That includes majors such s African Studies, Anthropology, Architecture, Art and Design, Chemistry, Classics, most Engineering majors, History, all languages, Mathematics, Physics, Sociology etc…In fact the majority of majors at Michigan have anywhere for 10-130 students per graduating class. Only Biology and Life Sciences, Business, Economics, English, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Political Science and Psychology have a large number of students enrolled in them. Those combined make up less than 40% of the undergraduate student body. The remaining students are part of very small departments and usually benefit from very smaller classes. Students enrolled in popular majors at Michigan have similar conditions as students enrolled in those majors at private universities. That is definitely the case with Economics as I extensively compared notes with friends who major in Econ at Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, Northwestern, Penn and Stanford.</p>
<p>Again, I do not misjudge private universities.</p>