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Classroom size is increasing—2016 has seen a 26% This data therefore shows that even though
increase in 100+ student classrooms from what it was classrooms with a hundred or more students are the
six years ago, most likely a result of the 12% increase most rapidly increasing, Miami has not completely
in undergrad enrollment. The most recent numbers abandoned its creed to small, personalized classes (an
indicate undergraduates alone have 106 sections with idea stressed to potential applicants). Nevertheless
a hundred or more pupils. this idea may require some thought in the near future
However classrooms with 20-29 students still have because all class sizes (excluding 50-99 students)
the most sections, and continue to increase by 14%. currently experience an increase in number of
sections from the 2011 count.
Source: Miami University Common Data Set 2011-2016, Office of Institutional Research
*The total undergraduate enrollment values listed are full-time students (both male and female) attending courses at the main Oxford campus.
*Class sections do not include labs
100+ student While this report does not suggest that the
swell of enrollment is the only factor causing