With Only 44 CS Grads, Is Harvey Mudd's CS Program's Success a Tad Overhyped?

There are only 807 undergrads[1] at Harvey Mudd (which of course is an excellent school).

So that's still a sizable portion of their undergrad students -- even though from such a small sample, it's very hard to tell whether what they are doing would scale.

Also worth noting -- Harvey Mudd is focused on Science and Engineering, so students who pick HM would likely be more predisposed to picking a major like CS, anyway.

But still, an increase is an increase, and they're not out of line to cite those numbers, IMO, they're accurate.

-- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College

It's been a while since I checked the numbers but Harvey Mudd alumni are the most likely to get terminal degrees of any school in the world, meaning this CS program will punch far above its weight as far as future professors/researchers go.

Harvey Mudd students seem to only have 9 actual majors to choose from, vs 100+ at some other colleges.

https://www.hmc.edu/academics/

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