<p>I disagree. While most LACs don’t offer engineering (Swarthmore is an exception among the top LACs), many have very strong science programs with many opportunities to work closely with faculty on research projects, small classes even in the intro levels, and they produce a high percentage of future PhD students in the sciences. S is at Grinnell, where the facilities are state-of-the-art, no science class is larger than 30 students, and he routinely drops in to chat with his profs. Granted not all LACs are strong in all sciences-you will have to do some research to figure out which schools are strongest in which areas, but the same is true of many larger schools.</p>