Liberal arts colleges commonly offer 3-2 engineering programs in conjunction with more technically oriented universities. If you go the Morehouse 3/2 route, then you would ultimately get a Georgia Tech engineering degree, which would be just as good as other Georgia Tech engineering degree. So in theory, it’s a perfectly valid idea.
In practice, however, 3-2 programs are not actually very popular. If you look at liberal arts colleges with such programs, ask about the number of students who actually complete them, because you may find that there are very few. Drawbacks include the following:
- The 3/2 approach takes 5 years, rather than 4, to get the engineering degree, which obviously means more time and $;
- liberal arts colleges tend to be comfortable places with strong senses of community. Many students find it very difficult to leave them for good after 3 years, with the prospect of starting over as a new student at a much larger and unfamiliar institution;
- most liberal arts colleges (including Morehouse) offer degrees in computer science (which is oriented towards software, rather than hardware). So you could work with computers with a 4-year liberal arts degree, without actually transferring to an engineering school. You may not need a computer engineering degree, unless you want to design computer hardware (as opposed to software). http://morehouse.edu/academics/comp/