<p>Guys, where can I find the list of Liberal Arts Colleges that offer Engineering Programs ?</p>
<p>here you go:</p>
<p>BEST PROGRAMS AT ENGINEERING SCHOOLS WHOSE HIGHEST DEGREE IS A BACHELOR’S OR MASTER’S </p>
<p>Rank School (*Public) Peer assessment score (5.0=highest)</p>
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<li> Harvey Mudd College (CA) 4.5 </li>
<li> Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. (IN) 4.5 </li>
<li> Cooper Union (NY) 4.3 </li>
<li> United States Military Academy (NY)* 4.1 </li>
<li> United States Naval Academy (MD)* 4.0 </li>
<li> Calif. Polytech. St. U.–San Luis Obispo* 3.9 </li>
<li> United States Air Force Acad. (CO)* 3.9 </li>
<li> Bucknell University ¶ 3.8 </li>
<li> Franklin W. Olin Col. of Eng. (MA) 3.8 </li>
<li> Milwaukee School of Engineering 3.6 </li>
<li> Villanova University ¶ 3.6 </li>
<li> Baylor University (TX) 3.5 </li>
<li> Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U. (FL) 3.5 </li>
<li> Swarthmore College ¶ 3.5 </li>
<li> Calif. State Poly. Univ.–Pomona* 3.4 </li>
<li> Rowan University (NJ)* 3.4 </li>
<li> Union College (NY) 3.4 </li>
<li> United States Coast Guard Acad. (CT)* 3.4 </li>
<li> Kettering University (MI) 3.3 </li>
<li> Lafayette College ¶ 3.3 </li>
<li> San Jose State University (CA)* 3.3 </li>
<li> Santa Clara University (CA) 3.3 </li>
<li> Smith College (MA) 3.3 </li>
<li> Trinity University (TX) 3.3 </li>
<li> Virginia Military Institute* 3.3
<ol>
<li> The Citadel (SC)* 3.2 </li>
<li> Gonzaga University (WA) 3.2 </li>
<li> Loyola Marymount University (CA) 3.2 </li>
<li> Miami University–Oxford (OH)* 3.2 </li>
<li> U.S. Merchant Marine Acad. (NY)* 3.2 </li>
<li> Univ. of Colo.–Colorado Springs* 3.2 </li>
<li> University of San Diego 3.2 </li>
<li> Valparaiso University (IN) 3.2 </li>
<li> Bradley University (IL) 3.1 </li>
<li> Embry-Riddle Aero. U.–Prescott (AZ) 3.1 </li>
<li> University of Portland (OR) 3.1 </li>
<li> Webb Institute (NY) 3.1 </li>
<li> Ohio Northern University 3.0 </li>
<li> St. Louis University 3.0 </li>
<li> Texas Christian University 3.0 </li>
<li> University of Michigan–Dearborn* 3.0 </li>
<li> Boise State University (ID)* 2.9 </li>
<li> California State U.–Long Beach* 2.9 </li>
<li> Manhattan College (NY) 2.9 </li>
<li> Mercer University (GA) 2.9 </li>
<li> Oregon Inst. of Technology* 2.9 </li>
<li> Seattle University 2.9 </li>
<li> Univ. of Massachusetts–Dartmouth* 2.9</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<p>So, these all school are Liberal Arts College ?</p>
<p>here are the Liberal Arts College rankings by USNWR:</p>
<p>[Liberal</a> Arts Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/liberal-arts-rankings]Liberal”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/liberal-arts-rankings)</p>
<p>Most of the top liberal arts colleges offer 3/2 programs for future engineers. But if you want a LAC with engineering, Swarthmore is one of the few top LACs that offers it. And Smith if you are a girl. Rice is not a LAC but is LAC-like in many ways. Ditto Dartmouth and Brown. Harvey Mudd is a tech school but has a LAC-like feel, especially since it shares a campus with the Claremont consortium of LACs.</p>
<p>Lafayette College. LAC in PA with engineering.</p>
<p>think carefully about the 3/2 programs before you enroll. From what I’ve heard, almost nobody actually completes them. After 3 years at a college where you’ve made friends and got to know the school it can be hard to leave all that and go to a distant school for 2 more years; especially when with just 1 more at your current school you graduate.</p>
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<p>Interesting! Is MIT a tech school that has a “university” feel? </p>
<p>HMC or Mudd is not a LAC because it happens to share a campus with four LACs. It is not lumped with the LACs because of association or closeness, but because it IS a Liberal Arts College. Mudd offers nine math, science, and engineering-based majors, all grounded in a solid core curriculum that includes a healthy dose of humanities and social science courses. </p>
<p>It also happens that Mudd offers the best undergraduate education in engineering, as the programs the school offer are not mere afterthoughts. </p>
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<p>Trinity College (Hartford) is another LAC that offers engineering.</p>
<p>Union and Lafayette.</p>
<p>Engineering has now become the most popular “possible major” listed by applicants to Swarthmore College.</p>
<p>It was the 6th most popular major for the graduating Class of 2009:</p>
<p>64 Economics
40 Biology
38 Political Science
37 Psychology
36 History
30 Engineering</p>
<p>Look closely at Bucknell.</p>
<p>xiggi, a few engineers at CalTech, Stanford and Princeton would argue with this.</p>
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<p>Lehigh and Smith are both LAC’s that have ABET accredited engineering programs.</p>
<p>^ Xiggi must have been talking only about LACs, no?
Of course engineering programs at MIT, CalTech, Stanford etc. are not “mere afterthoughts” (a reasonable way to characterize 3/2 programs at many LACs).</p>
<p>USNWR peer assessment scores for top engineering programs : </p>
<p>MIT (4.9)
Stanford, Berkeley (4.7)
CalTech (4.6)
Harvey Mudd, GIT, UI (4.5)
… (cluster of other schools) …
Princeton (4.1?)</p>
<p>So even among non-LACs, HMC seems to be quite close to the top. Close enough that, with its unusual features (as a consortium LAC), it’s a worthy contender for best choice (as is Princeton, along with quite a few others).</p>
<p>I do think that if you want a “Liberal Arts College” with engineering, and you have the qualifications, you really ought to be looking at the Ivies too. Rule them out if you’re sure you want a very small school, or if you think TAs are evil, but not if you are just looking for small classes and engineering within a broad arts and science curriculum.</p>
<p>I notice that Trinity college out of hartford is not even in the top 50 list that johnadams posted at the top. </p>
<p>anyone with ideas why?</p>
<p>My son is trying to find ‘peers of swarthmore’ - smaller schools w/ an engineering option along with the breadth of of liberal arts and science offerings - in order to make a more informed choice. I saw Trinity pop up in threads like this. It might be a better match for my son , admissions wise, than Swat.</p>
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<p>morrismm said–
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<p>morris, do you have any specific reasons why?</p>
<p>If, for example, it would be about the same amount of money to go to UIUC vs going to Bucknell, what wd be better for a boy from Chicago? </p>
<p>I am not sure how much awareness of Bucknell there is in the MW. But I suspect that awareness of UIUC (computer disciplines) extends beyond its native MW.</p>
<p>[Note he can almost for sure get in to Bucknell -and UIUC 's LAS college now , but he’d need to raise his ACT (taking it again on 9-11-10) to get into the Engineering college at UIUC.]</p>
<p>I am at Swarthmore right now as an engineering major and couldn’t be happier. I get the sense that I am getting a better education than my high school classmates who went onto Carnagie Mellon, Columbia etc. for engineering.</p>
<p>This thread is almost two years old.</p>
<p>A couple of questions. How does it work out for you being close but not in Philly? We’re from Chicago and my son’s dream school is Penn, so he’s not at all intimidated by the city, but getting into Penn may be a reach (he only has a 3.75 but nearly all honors/APs, 34 ACT). I know that Swarthmore has an outstanding reputation of its own; I just think that if he went there he’d keep wishing that he was at the other end of the SEPTA line. Also, how does the size work for you? He’s currently at a large and academically competitive public high school (just under 3,000 kids). Frankly we’re concerned that Swarthmore wouldn’t be large enough where he could find a real community - he has some social delays that are common to the kinds of kids who gravitate toward programs like engineering, so he needs decent odds to find commonality. I went to a similarly intense architecture program at a medium-large school (UVA) and the A-school was a tight community unto itself, so I had the best of both. Is your life as a Swattie (if I spelled that right) really all about the engineering department, or do you find you have a circle of friends outside the E-school as well? My son is specifically interested in computer science, with an eventual focus/thesis on game design.</p>