Students Per Department

For each department, count the students who have declared it as their major. Return department (the department's name) and students (the count), sorted by department. Students with no major are left out here; every department has at least one student.

Expected result:

+------------------+----------+
| department       | students |
+------------------+----------+
| Biology          |        4 |
| Business         |        4 |
| Computer Science |        8 |
| English          |        4 |
| Fine Arts        |        1 |
| Mathematics      |        5 |
+------------------+----------+
6 rows

Hints3 available

Topics:

Aggregates & GROUP BY

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