The most popular class at Stanford? Undergraduates choose their major after a year or so, and they choose courses without capacity caps, and so, surprises in the popular vote of the student body can occur. What so you think is currently the most popular course in the entire university? CS229 Machine Learning. And it’s a Masters-level course with prerequisites in computer science, probability theory and linear algebra… so most students on campus would not qualify. Current enrollment: 750 students. cs229.stanford.edu To be fair, the introductory programming class CS106A became so popular a few years back that they offer it every quarter (as they now do for the entire CS core), and it ranks a close second per quarter. But it adds up to ~2K students per year (more than the entire undergraduate class, as some graduate students in other programs also take it). And overall? The School of Engineering attracted a stable 20% of the undergraduate students for 20 years (1988 – 2008) and then, in the past five years it shot up linearly to 40% of the student body today. The growth drivers were CS and “None of the Above” (i.e., new degrees in Biomedical Computation, Individually Designed Majors, Bioengineering, Product Design, and Architectural Design, which interestingly comprise 50-63% women versus 18% in my major, EE).
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:41:53 +0000
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