Has Harvard losses its appeal to Stanford?

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@juillet

Stanford isn’t any less liberal arts focused than Harvard - they’re both liberal arts universities. Stanford has top 10 programs in history, psychology, anthropology, French language and literature, Spanish language and literature, English literature, religious studies, classics, sociology, linguistics, economics, political science and philosophy. And they have a heavy emphasis on combining tech and sscience with the humanities and social science - they have several CS+ joint majors; you can do a joint major in CS and Slavic languages and literatures, Italian, linguistics, music, philosophy, French, English, German, history, and classics. It’s just a well-rounded, excellent world-class university all around (just like Harvard).

Glancing over the the Common Data Sets, some differences:

Biology – Harvard produces 3 times as many majors (15% vs. ~5%)
Social sciences excluding psychology – Harvard produces twice as many majors (33% vs. 14.5%)

Engineering – Stanford produces 5 times as many majors (~20% vs. 4%)
Computer science – Stanford produces 4 times as many majors (12% vs 3%)

The two are roughly on par in the production of humanities majors (12% at Harvard, 10% at Stanford) and arts majors (3% at Harvard, 2% at Stanford). Harvard produces slightly more math and physical sciences majors (13% at Harvard, 9% at Stanford). The percentages of psych majors 6% at Harvard, 3% at Stanford) are too small to say anything.