<p>Hi guys. Over April break, i went on a tour of a few colleges just to take tours and to look at general overviews. One of the schools we went to was University of Pennsylvania. There they said that although you are majoring in business or engineering or something else, everything is taught with a liberal arts mindset. You are also given the option to take liberal arts oriented classes there along with your majoring courses. I'm wondering if there are any other schools like this as far out as St. Louis, Wisconsin, Tennessee and North Carolina from my hometown in Connecticut?</p>
<p>Although Penn is a bit of a reach for me, I'd say something like Bucknell or Swathmore would be my target, which is another school i know is similar to penn in that mindset. Also any school that doesn't have more than around 12000 undergrads. Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>Engineering degree programs typically have about 45-50% liberal arts – about 25% math and science, and 20-25% humanities and social studies requirements.</p>
<p>Union College, Lafayette, Bucknell, Tufts, U. Rochester…
BTW- even science/tech-oriented schools have liberal arts and require students to take courses beyond science/math/engineering. Their liberal arts offerings of course are not as broad as you would find at the schools mentioned above where engineering students are true minority on campus.</p>
Yep, it seems pretty common to me. Many of the engineers I’ve known at several different universities were able to double major fairly easily. Having AP/IB credit helps.</p>
<p>The size (<12,000 undergrads) and selectivity (less selective than Penn) restraints are more helpful. The following accept at least 20% of their applicants and are small/medium:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon
Case Western
GWU
Lafayette
Lehigh
Miami U
Northeastern
Rochester
Tufts
Union
UVA
UVM
Villanova</p>
<p>I’m not sure Columbia is a good suggestion for someone who says Penn is a big reach. Mudd is very selective as well.</p>
<p>^^why did you leave Bucknell off this list?? It is one the top ranked LA and engineering undergraduate schools (top 10 in most engineering majors) in the country. Much higher ranked than many of the schools on your list.</p>
<p>Is it because the op already mentioned Bucknell?</p>
<p>^
The OP mentioned Bucknell in his/her original post. No need to suggest a college that (s)he already knows about. I won’t claim my list is comprehensive, though – there’s probably others that people would include.</p>
<p>I typically don’t suggest colleges that people have already suggested in the same thread either, but I was still writing my post while most of the above posts were made.</p>