LACs with solid engineering programs

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<p>Consider Olin College of Engineering, although it isn’t exactly a LAC. Small tight-knit engineering community of 80 students per class. Huge emphasis on design and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. It does not offer a traditional engineering experience, however. Freshmen are introduced to the machine shops on day one. The curriculum is project-based and hands-on. Students also learn by working with teams. One bonus is the half-tuition scholarship that is offered to attract MIT-caliber students.</p>

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<p>Considering that Olin College is only 15 years old, I guess there isn’t enough data to answer my question, but I wonder how top graduate schools like MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech see an Olin degree .</p>

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<p>cant wait to visit olin…</p>

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<p>Olin seems like a good school, but it’s not really a LAC environment.</p>

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<p>You want an LAC. Most are in smalll communtities. Bucknell is one of the top rated engineering LAC schools period. </p>

<p>Yes it is in the middle of PA. But, it is a very quaint college town with ok shopping near by (Walmart, Target, Kohls, a mall, etc). The school regularly runs buses to NYC and other cities.</p>

<p>But if the point is to have the LAC college experience, do not put down schools because they arei in a rural location. That is part of the experience. It is only 4 years of your life. That seems like a lot at this point. But it is such a small part of your life. It will be gone in an instant.</p>

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<p>This is one of the most common misconceptions about Houston, but I can assure you that it is not an overly conservative place. It is, after all, the fourth-largest city in the country, and recently elected an open lesbian (and Rice alumna) as mayor. Houston is a very cosmopolitan city with tons of choices when it comes to restaurants and entertainment. I think the major adjustment for students who come to Houston from out-of-state have to make is simply getting used to the August temperatures, but once the school year is underway the heat subsides, too.</p>

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<p>Check out the graduate schools Olin Alumni have went to. <a href=“http://www.olin.edu/pgp/docs/PostGraduateActivitiesTopTen.pdf[/url]”>http://www.olin.edu/pgp/docs/PostGraduateActivitiesTopTen.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
22 alums went to Harvard, 16 MIT, 13 Carnegie Mellon, 12 Babson, 8 Cornell, 6 UW, 5 Berkeley and other fantastic colleges. This is a great result considering that there are only 500 alumni and the others work in industry.</p>