<p>Within California, Santa Clara and Loyola Marymount are relatively small and offer engineering. SCU seems a bit more STEM focused than LMU, but that may simply be due to my familiarity with it. </p>
<p>Case Western is a medium sized STEM focused institution. I believe it has a free application and offers excellent engineering.</p>
<p>[Association</a> of Independent Technological Universities: AITU](<a href=“http://www.theaitu.org/]Association”>http://www.theaitu.org/)
The bottom of the page displays some independent STEM focused schools although some of their offerings are quite limited. Webb for example is an 86 person school offering only a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.</p>