<p>can you guys suggest any liberal arts colleges that have good engineering/science programs(do they have the programs?).
I'm an international student so i am not very familar with LACs.
I would also like to know LACs that are generous to international students(i know Williams is)
I just got deferred from princeton and i decided to apply to more colleges.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Math: Harvey Mudd, Reed, Pomona, Swarthmore, Williams, Grinnell, St. Olaf, Haverford, Oberlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Carleton, Amherst, Rose-Hulman, Bryn Mawr, Mills, Kalamazoo, Knox, Cooper Union, Bowdoin, Vassar, Wellesley, Birmingham Southern College, Whitman College, Union, College of Wooster, Stevens Institute of Technology, Lawrence U, Smith, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Bucknell, Hendrix</p>
<p>Biology: Swarthmore, Reed, Haverford, Kalamazoo, Mount Holyoke, Carleton, Oberlin, Earlham, Harvey Mudd, Wellesley, Amherst, Lawrence U, Grinnell, Bowdoin, Pomona, Hendrix, Davidson, Williams, Bryn Mawr, Bates, Allegheny, Smith, Occidental, St. Olaf, Hiram, Beloit, Macalester, Knox, Hampshire, Bucknell, Colorado College, Juniata</p>
<p>Chemistry: Harvey Mudd, Wabash, Reed, Carleton, Bowdoin, Grinnell, Haverford, Franklin and Marshall, College of Wooster, Bryn Mawr, Allegheny, Knox, Occidental, Bates, Juniata, Kalamazoo, Williams, Swarthmore, Oberlin, Andrews, Holy Cross, St. Olaf, Hendrix, Hope, Davidson, Ursinus, Kenyon, Macalester, Centre, Wellesley, Wheaton, Trinity U, Lawrence U, Colgate, Ripon, Drew, Willamette, Beloit, Augustana, Hiram, Lake Forest, Gustavus Adolphus, Rose-Hulman, Albion, Amherst, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Hamline, Bethel, Mount Holyoke</p>
<p>Physics: Harvey Mudd, Carleton, Reed, Swarthmore, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Haverford, Grinnell, Williams, Whitman, Amherst, Goshen, Marlboro, Rose-Hulman, Stevens Institute of Technology, Oberlin, Wabash, Gustavus Adolphus, Colorado School of Mines, Bryn Mawr College, Lawrence U, Wesleyan U, Bethel, Pomona, William and Mary, St. Olaf College, Beloit, Bates, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Kalamazoo, Earlham, Hastings, Kenyon, Rhodes, Macalester, Franklin and Marshall, Bowdoin, Clarkson</p>
<p>Engineering: Harvey Mudd, Lafayette, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Smith, Bucknell, Gonzaga, Union, Valparaiso, Trinity</p>
<p>Also, several LACs have 3-2 engineering programs with schools like MIT. </p>
<p>Rice, Case Western, Brandeis, and U Rochester are not LACs, but they are small universities worth considering.</p>
<p>wow
thanks a lot warblersrule86!</p>
<p>Here are the top 40 per capita producers of PhDs in math, science, and engineering over the most recent ten year period with the percentage of all grads at each school that get PhDs in those fields. I've marked the LACs or undergrad-only colleges in bold so you can maybe get some ideas:</p>
<p>Number of PhDs per 1000 graduates<br>
Academic field: All Engineering, Hard Science, and Math<br>
PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database<br>
Number of Undergraduates: ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database<br>
Formula: Total PhDs divided by Total Grads<br>
Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period </p>
<p>1 California Institute of Technology 34.0%
2 Harvey Mudd College 23.5%
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 16.1%
4 Reed College 10.2%
5 Rice University 8.6%
6 Swarthmore College 8.3%
7 Princeton University 7.6%
8 Carleton College 7.5%
9 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 7.4%
10 University of Chicago 7.1%
11 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 6.7%
12 Case Western Reserve University 6.5%
13 Harvard University 6.4%
14 Carnegie Mellon University 6.1%
15 Johns Hopkins University 6.0%
16 Haverford College 6.0%
17 Grinnell College 5.8%
18 Cornell University, All Campuses 5.6%
19 Kalamazoo College 5.5%
20 Stanford University 5.5%
21 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 5.2%
22 Yale University 5.2%
23 Cooper Union 5.0%
24 Oberlin College 4.7%
25 Lawrence University 4.7%
26 Bryn Mawr College 4.7%
27 Williams College 4.6%
28 Pomona College 4.5%
29 Colorado School of Mines 4.5%
30 Bowdoin College 4.4%
31 Earlham College 4.4%
32 Brown University 4.3%
33 University of Rochester 4.3%
34 University of California-Berkeley 4.2%
35 Wabash College 4.2%
36 Duke University 4.1%
37 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 4.1%
38 Amherst College 4.0%
39 Stevens Institute of Technology 4.0%
40 St Olaf College 4.0%</p>
<p>As for financial aid for internationals, Williams has a very large budget. Swarthmore and Amherst also have signficant international aid budgets. For example, 55% of Swarthmore's international students qualify for aid and the average scholarship is about $28,000. Amherst's numbers are similar. All three of those schools have 6% to 7% international enrollment, which is pretty high.</p>
<p>Of the other schools I know that Pomona has a very small international enrollment and a very small international aid budget -- just a few students per year receive aid. I haven't looked in detail at the international enrollment or international aid dollars at many of these schools. However, that information is available in the USNEWS premium on-line database, which is a few dollars well spent on that sort of data.</p>
<p>Holy Cross as mentioned is strong in chemistry and biology also school is building another science building. Also Holy Cross might still have a 5 year program with WPI that offers degrees in liberal arts and engineering. Bucknell -another good LAC.</p>
<p>Oberlin offers better than average aid to international students.</p>
<p>Look at Ohio Wesleyan, too. All of the schools that are members of The Undergraduate Science Group among LACs will be strong in math and sciences. OWU is also incredibly generous with internationals.</p>