<p>Recently I decided that I'm probably gonna go into engineering, but the problem is that I'm interested in a lot of other stuff too and would like to take interesting classes in other subjects while at college as well. (I know an engineering schedule is pretty strict and often doesn't allow for many electives, but I hope I'd find a way to fit them in.)</p>
<p>For a while I thought that I wanted to go to a liberal arts school. I liked the smaller size and the sense of community. The problem is that almost no liberal arts colleges offer engineering. The smaller schools that offer engineering often cater exclusively to engineers and don't really offer many classes in the humanities.</p>
<p>I'd like to find a school that is either small or medium sized but that also has strong programs in both engineering and in the more liberal arts-y stuff. I'm willing to compromise regarding the size, as long as it's not HUGE.</p>
<p>I'm most interested in research surrounding sustainability and environmental engineering, if that helps at all.</p>
<p>Thank youuuuuu!!!</p>
<p>P.S. I'm looking for both more selective and less selective schools, I need reaches and safeties! Schools that offer a lot of merit aid would be great as well.</p>
<p>Realistically, YOU need to do some thinning out of colleges first. Use the SuperMatch in the column on the left and play around with the options. Your requirements here are too imprecise for us to be much help.</p>
<p>Not knowing your GPA/SAT it is impossible to know where you might get in or where you might get merit aid. But some LACs with engineering I know of offhand are Lafayette, Bucknell, Union, and Trinity. Mid sized universities with engineering are Lehigh, Villanova. And consider Manhattan College if you have good grades/tests and need merit aid. This is something you can research online. </p>
<p>Look to see what you can reasonably afford.Then try to get the USNWR list of engineering undergrad programs (or any other list) not for the rankings but because it is a good list of schools. You can go through and see which make sense for you in terms of size and selectivity. </p>
<p>Harvey Mudd will nicely fit the bill for you, but it’s pretty unique. </p>
<p>Rochester allows a 5th year free if you don’t need it to satisfy a major. </p>
<p>Generally speaking though, an engineering major is a professional degree and thus often has too many requirements to allow a wide range of other courses. An approach is a 3-2 engineering program but few people really do that, either because of money, leaving their friends, or because doing all the engineering classes in two years is too hard. </p>
<p>Academically, if you can generally afford college, doing a 3-2 program all at a flagship public may provide what you want, but it costs an extra year. </p>
<p>For example 5 years at the University of Wisconsin is cheaper than 4 years at a private school. </p>
<p>However, since you’re cost constrained, another approach is to get the engineering degree, get a job in Boston, and use your high salary to audit evening humanities and social science courses to your heart’s delight at Harvard extension at $750 a pop. </p>
<p>I second the Harvey Mudd suggestion, if you have the academic chops. You will have opportunities to take classes at the other liberal arts colleges within the Claremont Consortium, and to socialize with lots of students outside of STEM disciplines while having a top-notch Engineering program at your disposal. If you are competitive academically, Columbia SEAS students have to fulfill most of the Core Curriculum requirements that Columbia College students also have to do. Another idiosyncratic option is the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Although they do not have an Engineering major, per se, they have Physics and Computer Science concentrations, and you may design a double or interdisciplinary major with other undergraduate colleges at the university (including Arts & Sciences and Engineering). Finally, almost every liberal arts college offers a Math or Physics major, and many offer Computer Science and other STEM majors. You do not have to major in Engineering to get some of the background you need for the field. A 3-2 program is also feasible if you have the sort of AP or IB credits that most students applying to selective programs typically have. </p>
<p>Environmental engineering is often treated as a subarea of civil engineering, so many schools which have civil engineering do not have it as a separately ABET-accredited major. Less commonly, it is treated as a subarea of some other kind of engineering like chemical engineering.</p>
<p>It does look like you are asking for schools with somewhat contradictory characteristics – you want the school to be small, but have good offerings in a wide range of subjects. Small schools with your desired engineering major and convenient cross registration with other schools are theoretically a solution, but there are relatively few of these to choose from.</p>
<p>BTW, I think you have to choose between size and variety of subjects.</p>
<p>Clarkson has cross-registration with 3 other colleges. Tufts has cross-registration with some other Boston schools.</p>
<p>Clarkson is small. Some of the other smaller engineering schools with environmental engineering are SD Mines (brutal winters) and NM Tech (very high PhD production rate, so they must be doing something right). Pretty affordable OOS tuition as well. Also WPI (lots of merit aid) and Stevens (they have full-tuition scholarships).</p>
<p>Depending on your stats and how much you can afford:
Lehigh (show interest before and after applying)
Humboldt State (may still offer WUE for eligible students)
Bucknell
Case Western Reserve (wide variety of courses. Not just an engineering school)
Marquette
Rice
Syracuse (literally across the street from SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry)
JHU
University of Maine
University of Miami
University of Vermont</p>