What is the Average Class Size?
“Average” can be a very misleading term. Classes at Yale range from one-on-one tutorials to a small seminar to a lecture course of several hundred students. In the fall of 2002, 77 percent of classes enrolled fewer than twenty students; 31 percent enrolled fewer than ten. In the same semester only 38 courses, out of 1,170 offered, had enrollments of 100 students or more.