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Seniors ranked their concentrations on a 5-point scale—and smaller departments came out on top. Below are mean scores for fields with 6 or more responses.

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Earth/Planetary Sciences (5.00)

History and Science (4.38)

Romance Lang. and Lit. (4.33)

Women/Gender/Sexuality (4.17)

Human Evolutionary Biology (4.14)

History and Literature (4.10)

History of Art/Architecture (4.10)

Physics (4.09)

Philosophy (4.06)

History (4.04)

Visual/Environmental Studies (4.00)

Neurobiology (4.00)

Religion (4.00)

Sociology (3.95)

Near Eastern Lang. and Civ. (3.88)

Anthropology (3.87)

Computer Science (3.87)

Social Studies (3.76)

Psychology (3.75)

Chemistry (3.69)

English (3.69)

Classics (3.60)

East Asian Studies (3.57)

Math (3.54)

Environmental Science/Policy (3.40)

Applied Math (3.38)

Biochemical Sciences (3.27)

Engineering (3.27)

Economics (3.19)

Government (3.04)

Biology* (3.02)

*The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to disband Biology in 2006. The Class of ’09 is the last cohort that will have the option of concentrating in the field.