<p>So maybe this is a trend among prestigious, liberal artsy universities. They have seen the future, and it looks a lot like Stanford.</p>
<p>I really appreciate all the input you guys have given. Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Just as a clarification, I didn’t necessarily specify a LAC (although I am open to them), but as tk21769 puts it, “liberal artsy university” in general that offers a decent engineering education, as opposed to a strict technical institute.</p>
<p>I think I may have dismissed MIT too early, but maybe MIT’s outstanding liberal arts is just the exception when considering technical institutes.
All of the Ivy League have a pretty established engineering program, each with its own dean that annually attend the “Ivy Engineering Deans Meet.” I would be happy studying engineering at any of the Ivies.</p>
<p>For now, though, I want to put Ivy League/MIT aside. Hopefully I can get into at least one of my reach schools, but I want to be realistic.</p>
<p>Right know I know of JHU, possibly Tufts (is their engineering decent?), Lehigh, Trinity, Swathmore, and Bucknell.</p>
<p>I only know for sure that JHU is pretty good for engineering, and I want to say that I’m confident about getting in. Would the LAC’s above have comparably good engineering? Are there any other universities that are as “prestigious”?</p>
<p>I have to say, this community is awesome. Some of the posts on this thread are amazingly detailed and insightful.</p>
<p>How about Bucknell?</p>
<p>In Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Take a look at Dartmouth - strong liberal arts education, and their 5-year engineering major is ABET certified.</p>
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<p>Even a “strict technical institute” will have some liberal arts because:</p>
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<li> Math and natural science are needed prerequisites to engineering.</li>
<li> Humanities and social studies requirements in the engineering degree program are required for ABET accreditation (even Brown, with no breadth requirements generally, requires humanities and social studies breadth for engineering majors).</li>
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<p>However, what it appears that you are really looking for is a large selection of quality offerings in whatever liberal arts you are interested in. Is that correct? If so, then any school that is good in both engineering and the liberal arts you are interested in will be good for this purpose. And that means a lot of schools quality, including many of the big state universities.</p>
<p>^floridadad55–she/he is considering Bucknell. See post #22.</p>
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<p>Yet that lip service seems to be pretty sweet. Harvard and Yale are both ranked somewhere in the 20’s to 40’s in engineering rankings - far better than the average engineering program. Student at the average engineering program would probably wish they were going to one ranked in the 20’s to 40’s. Let’s face it - the average engineering program ain’t that good.</p>