Average Class Sizes in the Turner College: A Look at the Numbers

Heading into the fall semester Turner Business decided to examine the average class sizes of the business courses offered by the Turner College in subjects where students can earn a degree, either undergraduate or graduate. At the undergraduate level this list would include accounting (ACCT), finance (FINC), management (MGMT), management information systems (MISM) and marketing (MKTG). At the graduate level there is the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Science in Organizational Leadership (MSOL), the latter of which also includes courses in human resources (MSHR) and servant leadership (MSSL). The data are shown in the table below.

As shown in the table above, the average class size in management, 33.8 students, exceeds that in every other undergraduate major. Its closest rival is marketing, with an average class size of 31.0 students, followed by accounting, with an average class size of 29.9 students. Bringing up the rear is finance, with an average class size of 24.6 students. Just ahead of finance is MISM, which has 25.0 students per class on average. The last two observations in the table above concern the graduate programs. The MBA classes currently enroll only 18.8 students on average, while the organizational leadership program offers 10 classes enrolling an average of 31.4 students. Statistically speaking, the average class size in the MSOL program is the same as that for the undergraduate management degree. And, just like MGMT, the average class size in the MSOL program is statistically larger than that of both MISM and FINC.

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