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Comparing NC State to Research Peer Institutions

2005-06 Percent of Classes with Fewer than 20 Students

Institution
Classes with under 20 students
Yale Univ
76%
California Institute of Technology
75%
Northwestern Univ
74%
Univ of Pennsylvania
74%
Washington Univ In St Louis
73%
Duke Univ
73%
Stanford Univ
73%
Univ of Chicago
72%
Princeton Univ
72%
Columbia Univ In The City of New York
71%
Harvard Univ
69%
Brown Univ
68%
Vanderbilt Univ
67%
Emory Univ
66%
Johns Hopkins Univ
66%
Syracuse Univ
66%
Carnegie Mellon Univ
66%
Brandeis Univ
63%
Univ of Southern California
62%
Univ of Rochester
62%
Rice Univ
62%
Univ of California-Berkeley
61%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
61%
Cornell Univ
60%
New York Univ
59%
Case Western Reserve Univ
58%
Tulane Univ of Louisiana
57%
Univ of California-Los Angeles
54%
Univ of California-Santa Barbara
50%
Univ of Virginia-Main Campus
49%
Univ of Colorado at Boulder
48%
Univ of Iowa
48%
Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
47%
Univ of Michigan-Ann Arbor
45%
Univ of California-Irvine
44%
Univ of Missouri-Columbia
44%
Univ of Pittsburgh-Main Campus
44%
Univ of California-San Diego
43%
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
43%
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
42%
Indiana Univ-Bloomington
42%
Rutgers Univ-New Brunswick
42%
Univ of Minnesota-Twin Cities
41%
Univ of Florida
39%
Univ of Oregon
39%
Iowa State Univ
38%
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
37%
Univ of Nebraska at Lincoln
37%
Suny at Buffalo
37%
Suny at Stony Brook
36%
Univ of Washington-Seattle Campus
36%
Univ of Georgia
35%
Univ of Maryland-College Park
35%
Ohio State Univ-Main Campus
35%
Univ of Texas at Austin
35%
Univ of California-Davis
34%
Purdue Univ-Main Campus
34%
North Carolina State Univ at Raleigh
33%
Univ of Arizona
32%
Penn State Univ-Main Campus
30%
Michigan State Univ
23%
Virginia Tech
22%
Texas A & M Univ
21%

Definition: Class size: 1-19 students. The percentage of undergraduate classes, excluding class subsections, with fewer than 20 students enrolled during the fall of 2006.

Source: US News America's Best Colleges, August 2007

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