<p>Just wondering.</p>
<p>swarthmore has a general engineering major. haverford has a 3/2 with caltech.</p>
<p>harvey mudd</p>
<p>My top 3 suggestions would be </p>
<ol>
<li>Harvey Mudd</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd</li>
</ol>
<p>Agree with Swarthmore. Would add (including small universities as well) Rice, Bucknell, Cooper Union, Lehigh, Lafayette, Rose-Hullman and Union. A large number of LACs will offer 3/2 programs in affiliation with large universities. The number of students exercising this option tends to be pretty small, though.</p>
<p>Mudd for sure</p>
<p>Mudd. Smith, if you're female.</p>
<p>Every LAC advertises a 3/2 program. Nobody can remember the last time a student actually did one. For starters, you have to pay for five years of college to get a four-year degree. Nobody wants to transfer out of their college for senior year. And, if anyone did, they'd be behind the eigtht ball taking their first course in engineering in their fourth year in college.</p>
<p>Mudd and Swarthmore are the two best engineering bets in LAC sized colleges. Mudd is not really an LAC -- it's Caltech without grad students. Swarthmore is pretty much the definition of an LAC. Both are just ridiculously hard to get into. At times, Swarthmore has given a tip to prospective engineering majors, but this year it was (if I recall) the most popular major mentioned on the applications.</p>
<p>Most of the second tier LACs with engineering were mentioned above. They are all fine schools with respected engineering departments.</p>
<p>Plus, Smith has a brand new engineering program.</p>
<p>Bucknell, Lafayette.</p>
<p>Caltech is like an LAC in size.</p>
<p>Lehigh is a small university.</p>
<p>Catholic University is worth a look. Not very big, LAC feel, good engineering program.</p>
<p>Some U's that have engineering programs that are LAC like in size and feel are Ohio Northern and Case Western.</p>
<p>Can't add much to this list.</p>
<p>What about Elon and Rose-Hulman?</p>
<p>Thanks to all the early risers with college suggestions. I'm so grateful. I wouldn't have thought of most of them. Harvey Mudd? Is this a newer college? I never heard of it. This was my reaction to most of the suggestions. Guess we need to start doing our homework, and you folks have pointed us in the right direction with your expertise in this area.<br>
Thank you, thank you and if anyone else wants to weigh in, please feel free. I will add it to my list for investigation.</p>
<p>Again, thanks so MUCH!</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd is part of the Claremont Consortium, along with Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps (in California) - definitely worth checking out.</p>
<p>Smith has the only engineering program in the country that, with a 3.5 GPA, has guaranteed admissions to the graduate engineering programs at Dartmouth, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, Notre Dame, and University of Michigan.</p>
<p>Yes, but isn't Smith an all-girls college? Or at least mostly girls? And didn't I read that they just started their engineering program?</p>
<p>No girls at Smith; only women. ;) The program graduated its first class in 2004, and is fully ABET accredited. They are now in the middle of building a $75 million dollar engineering center.</p>
<p>I agree with Rose-Hulman and Harvey Mudd. However, you should also check out Lehigh and Bucknell closely. I've heard good things about them. And they also provide a more varied academic curriculum than the former 2, which focus mainly on math/science.</p>
<p>Mudd is (if I remember right) the most selective LAC in the country. At the very least it has the best test scores if not most selective overall. It's not well known to Average Joe but it is very well respected by grad school and employers.</p>
<p>Rice University is very LAC-like.</p>