Would love insight from thread participants on if it’s possible to do an engineering major at Harvey Mudd if enrolled at another consortia school?
I don’t believe so. Consortium students can take E4 Intro to Engineering Design (the well-known core class where each student designs and fabricates a keepsake hammer, among many other projects https://www.hmc.edu/admission/2015/03/06/its-hammer-time/ ) and then continue into the Human-Centered Design course sequence, but as I understand it they can’t do a full Mudd engineering major unless they do a 3:2 program with Mudd. Consortium students can do the Mudd computer science major (except Pomona students since Pomona has its own CS major), but it has become less assured that this will be available to all who want it.
Thanks-- do you know if the 3+2 programs with Mudd (I think offered with Scripps, Pomona and CMC) are programs students really do use? When I dig into other schools’ 3+2 offerings, most of the feedback is that very few students actually complete it.
I’m wary of other 3+2 programs that would require me to leave for my “senior” year with my friends, but am very much a STEAM oriented student and would already plan to take a bunch of electives at other consortia schools if I were at HM. Given that the 3+2 programs are really is all in the same consortia, I’m intrigued.
Barnard has a 4+1 program with Columbia’s Fu School of Engineering and would probably offer much of what you’re looking for at Claremont.
Wellesley and MIT also have a 5-year double degree program. It’s not the same as Claremont or Columbia where students are already part of one big campus more or less, but it’s also not like other 3-2 programs because Wellesley & MIT already have cross registration and a shuttle that connects the 2 campuses.
Bryn Mawr and Penn also have a 4+1 program between 2 colleges which already have cross registration on the undergrad level like Wellesley & MIT. a nice benefit of the Bryn Mawr program is that students get a master’s degree for their troubles upon completion of the 5th year at Penn. another benefit is that a student spends all 4 years on her original undergrad campus albeit while still taking some cross registration classes at the engineering college.
Yes, leaving your friends, etc. would not be an issue in this arrangement. However, admission to HMC as a 3+2 transfer is competitive, and financial aid may differ from at the “3” school. Also, there is an extra year of costs. HMC also has extensive core and general education requirements that should be taken into account while enrolled at the “3” school.
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