Transfer from boston university

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@Demon Deacon

Left unsaid, of course, is that Boston U has 18,534 undergrads to Wake’s 4,476 undergrads which means that Wake Forest actually wins the undergrad student to classics professor ratio…

This is getting off track, but I suspect you actually have it in reverse. Classics tends to be the most unpopular liberal arts major (along with geology), and even Berkeley graduates only about 2 or 3 classics majors a year. It’s quite typical for faculty to outnumber undergraduate classics majors. Put a different way, the number of classics majors at any given college tends to be constant, but the number of faculty rises as one examines larger institutions. </p>

<p>As Victor Davis Hanson put it in Who Killed Homer?,

Of over one million BAs awarded in 1994, only six hundred were granted in Classics, meaning that there are now five or six Classics professors in the country for every senior Classics major and over thirty books and articles a year for every graduating student.

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<p>Sadly, the field has dwindled even more in the last 15 years. In 2005 nationwide only 35 seniors majored in Greek and 89 in Latin. Yep, the field is THAT tiny.</p>