<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm looking for a university that has a medium number of students, small classes, focuses on liberal arts, and has strong support from the professors. Basically, a big liberal arts college with a graduate school, preferrably prestigious.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>It sounds like you're describing Rice University.</p>
<p>Dartmouth also probably fits the profile.</p>
<p>boston college</p>
<p>chicago...</p>
<p>Brown maybe</p>
<p>to add on the ones already listed,
Brandeis University
College of William and Mary</p>
<p>Wake Forest</p>
<p>Maybe it depends on how you define "medium number of students." </p>
<p>I would add Davidson and Colgate, but Rice is probably the strongest and most quintessentially LAC-like of the elite universe of national universities.</p>
<p>Tufts might fit the bill</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Medium number of students is probably around 1,000-2,000 students per class.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was thinking about Rice for awhile. I just don't know how well I can stand the heat! :(</p>
<p>Don't worry, it's not hot all year long in Houston. In fact, there's not many places in the country that have nicer weather in February.</p>
<p>For national universities ranked in the USNWR Top 30, here are the approximate size entering classes for colleges that might meet your criteria:</p>
<p>2088 , Notre Dame
2038 , Northwestern
1846 , Wash U StL
1713 , Georgetown
1679 , Harvard
1662 , Emory
1606 , Stanford
1595 , Vanderbilt
1583 , Duke
1503 , Brown
1417 , Carnegie Mellon
1333 , Yale
1315 , Columbia
1249 , Tufts
1202 , U Chicago
1190 , Princeton
1120 , J Hopkins
1083 , Wake Forest
1032 , MIT
1021 , Dartmouth
762 , Rice
216 , Cal Tech</p>
<p>As for Rice’s weather, I would advise missing summer school, but otherwise it can be a pretty appealing place in the winter months. For example, their 2008 home baseball opener was played on February 26th. By contrast, Dartmouth’s was April 6th.</p>
<p>Also, note that Rice is increasing its enrollment by 30% in the next 10 years. A</a> Vision For The 2nd Century | Vision: Size</p>
<p>I'm not sure you can serve two masters. A school at some point must decide its mission, and if Ph.D. program students are more than, say 20% of the student body, then those Ph.D. programs tend to suck up the lions share of resources.</p>
<p>LACs are tremendous precisely because the graduate programs are not the focus.</p>
<p>You could look at the Claremont Colleges (Pomona, Harvey Mudd, CMC, Pitzer, Scripps). </p>
<p>While they are LACs they are all part of a larger university setting of about 5500 undergrads, plus two graduate institutions.</p>
<p>University of Rochester
University of Richmond</p>
<p>Brandeis ....</p>
<p>University of Tulsa? I've heard it's the smallest Division I school.</p>
<p>Colgate, Bucknell, Wesleyan, Holy Cross all have from 700-950 students per class and three of them are actually called university. SUNY Geneseo could be another consideration.</p>