<p>What are some of Liberal Arts colleges that have an ok/good engineering program?
Do they also send many students to top law schools?</p>
<p>We visited Bucknell with our D this past summer. All we heard about while we were there was what a great Engineering school it is. Engineering is not her chosen field but if it were we certainly would have explored Bucknell more.</p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis, Harvey Mudd, Bucknell, Swarthmore, Vanderbilt, Santa Clara, USC.</p>
<p>what about bryn mawr? It doesn’t seem like they have an engineering major but they have 3/2 program with caltech? (correct me if I’m wrong…) what is a 3/2 program?</p>
<p>@smille a 3/2 engineering program is one in which you study in the LAC for 3 years and then do a 2 year engineering program (of your choice) from another college (with which the LAC has a tie up). Thus you get two degrees from the colleges, the LAC one and the engineering one. I have heard that the 3/2 engineering program is good in Occidental, LA.
Hope this helps.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if your interest is confined just to stand-alone liberal arts colleges or also includes liberal arts colleges that are part of a larger university. Several of the above suggestions fall in the latter camp.</p>
<p>If you mean the former, there is a somewhat small group, eg Swarthmore College, Trinity College (CT), Union College, Smith College, that offer engineering majors. I don’t know about “good”, they are all pretty small, I don’t know how well they each cover this huge field comprehensively or if they have many upper level courses in all the various sub-specialties. There is also Lafayette College, Lehigh, Bucknell.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd has classified itself as a liberal arts college, yet so far as I’m aware itself offers relatively little instruction in a substantial portion of the fields normally associated with such colleges: humanites, history, etc. Those subjects can be pursued at the other Claremont colleges so this still may work for you, depending on your specific interests.</p>
<p>Re: 3-2 programs :
[Combined</a> Plan Program | Columbia University Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/engineering/combined]Combined”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/engineering/combined)
I’ve read that columbia engineering has about 150 students doing this program.</p>
<p>How does it work for them in practice?
[3-2</a> - Willipedia](<a href=“http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/3-2]3-2”>3-2 - Willipedia)</p>
<p>Comments from the CC peanut gallery:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/199128-how-3-2-programs.html?highlight=program[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/199128-how-3-2-programs.html?highlight=program</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/302712-3-2-engineering-programs.html?highlight=program[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/302712-3-2-engineering-programs.html?highlight=program</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/659164-quick-question-about-3-2-program.html?highlight=program[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/659164-quick-question-about-3-2-program.html?highlight=program</a></p>
<p>If you’re also open to liberal arts colleges within universities there are undoubtedly many choices, though they will vary as to how you may combine your interests in liberal arts subjects and engineering. For example, I believe Dartmouth, Brown, Harvard, Yale and Princeton all don’t have separate collleges for engineering, that may help as far as integration goes. But at many other universities the engineering college and the liberal arts college have some level of separation from each other. But even at the universities with separate engineering colleges, given available free electives within each college there you may be able to combine these interests. You’d have to look into the degree of integration possible at each university, individually.</p>
<p>I’ll add Lafayette to the list.</p>
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This has been answered many times before. The best are:</p>
<p>Bucknell
Harvey Mudd
Lafayette
Smith
Swarthmore
Trinity
Union</p>
<p>Case Western, U Rochester, Caltech, and Rice are LAC-sized and quite strong in engineering.</p>
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Majoring in engineering is perhaps ill-advised for prelaw students. GPA and LSAT scores are by far the most important parts of an application, so an extremely high GPA is required. While some people have been successful prelaw engineering majors (e.g. former CC poster AriesAthena), it is generally a bad idea.</p>
<p>EDIT: Cross-posted with monydad</p>
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<p>WUSTL, Vanderbilt, Santa Clara and USC are not LACs. And of these, only USC is decent for engineering.</p>
<p>Don’t overlook Hope College in Holland, MI.</p>