What is William & Mary Like?

TTG
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:17:25 +0000

I know their are immediate plans for a student business incubator site at One Tribe Place, on Richmond Road–idea to pitch. The business school also has entrepreneurial programs, though I’m not expert in that.

Often, at US universities, students will have larger lecture classes for introductory courses Economics 101, Calculus, Chemistry 101 (or whatever the number is). These can range up to 500 or more students, at some schools. You would probably have a few of these at W&M, like at other top national universities, though I think they typically number 100-200 or so there. But W&M, again like other schools, have introduced smaller required freshman seminars so that students will take smaller discussion-based classes their first year. Their are a wide range of seminars to choose from, and these classes tend to be small topics in which the professors are interested, so they often bring great knowledge and enthusiasm to the classes.

After that, it varies by department and student. A student would typically take some required smaller lecture classes, more in the 40-80 student range and then smaller discussion classes. Depending how a student chooses to organize their schedule, they might have lots of lecture classes like these or very few. For example, a psych major might take a couple of larger lecture classes in their major and a couple to meet other requirements, a couple of smaller lecture classes to meet psych requirements, then all discussion-based classes for their other classes if that’s their focus. Students generally have a fair amount of control over this, especially after basic requirements are met.

There are a lot of small classes and group collaborative projects in the business school. One very good thing about W&M and most smaller LACs is that professors teach almost every class. I know of one tip-top public university where the intro math classes are notably small, and taught by TAs, who might be outstanding, but it is nice when you have professors for every class.