If you’re a person who learns best with one-on-one support, a lot of attention, and you generally prefer to sit in the front of the class, a college with small classes might be the right fit for you.

U.S. News & World Report recently published the top 10 colleges and universities that offer the greatest percentage of small classes.  Here they are:

1. New School
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 91.4%

2. Golden Gate University
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 83.3%

3. Harvard University
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 80.0%

4. Immaculata University
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 80.0%

5. Nova Southeastern University
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 79.4%

6. Yale University
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 79.0%

7. Columbia University
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 78.8%

8. University of Chicago
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 77.6%

9. SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 76.9%

10. University of La Verne
Percentage of Classes with Fewer Than 20 Students: 76.5%

Do you have an opinion about class sizes? What works best for you?

Academics:
Remember high school? You spent days polishing your application essays and nights worrying about a rejection letter from the university of your dreams. You’re at that university now, paying a small fortune for the small class sizes, award-winning professors and diverse, gifted classmates that you dreamed about two or three years ago. And now you’re trying to leave?You have probably already started taking those advantages for granted. Unless you’re considering a semester at Oxford, you might be unpleasantly surprised at the academics at your host school. There’s a reason foreigners come to America’s universities – they really are the best in the world.

Classes:
As budgets are cut, so are class schedules. Unless you’re in the biggest major on campus, there are classes that are offered very infrequently – classes that you’ll miss out on. It might be the seminar on women in journalism or on South American popular revolutions. Ever since the spring of my first year, I had been yearning to take a class on natural language processing (don’t ask – it’s really nerdy). I would have missed out on the chance to take that course if I had gone abroad. The kicker is that your junior year is when you start having enough priority to register for the classes that filled up when you were a freshman or a sophomore.

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