What are class sizes for upper-level biology majors?
Required courses may range from 25 to ~100 students, depending upon semester. Elective biology lecture courses are considerably smaller than required lecture courses. For example, our senior tutorial classes (BSC 4931r) are limited to 5 students. On average however, elective biology lecture courses typically consist of 20 to 60 students. Upper-level laboratories can range from 8 – 24 students. I’ve heard the “Ruby Diamond Auditorium” biology class is one of the biggest on campus with some of the best faculty… You may have heard of a biology course at Florida State University with an enrollment of up to 1,500 students per semester – BSC 1005. However, this course is taken by non-majors only, to partially fulfill the University’s Natural Sciences Liberal Studies requirement. Therefore, biological science majors would not take this course.
