“Though nearly remarkable in its conclusion, this study seems to be infrequently cited. The authors themselves use conservative wording, but they do appear to strongly suggest that for maximal cognitive progression, it’s imperative – given a realistic choice – to select a liberal arts college”
the issue though is that LACs are expensive even with their FA and most people don’t think an economics degree from Berkeley or Michigan at half the price is worse than economics degree from Pomona or Amherst. If you want to compare Berkeley or Michigan to Pomona or Amherst in engineering, economics, english. literature, computer science, physics and figure out who’s better, I’m more than happy to engage in this discussion. You’ll have a tough time figuring out where Amherst or Pomona is better. Let me start, the co-founder of Google went to Michigan undergrad.