Student to faculty ratio

Sometimes small class discussions get dominated by dumb students and you don’t actually end up learning as much from the professor as you’d like. That said, my favorite class in college was a graduate seminar on Sung Dynasty Landscape painting. There were five or six of us who signed up. It met once a week and we had to write a paper for every class based on the reading and the paintings we were looking at that week. Everyone had to do the reading and the subject was obscure enough that no one took the class unless they were interested. My second favorite class were all the architectural history classes I took with a brilliant lecturer. Classes were I’d guess around 60. There was a TA - I think the same one all three years I took classes with this prof. He required students to discuss paper topics with him and I got to know him well enough that I asked him to be one of my senior thesis advisors.