<p>@roycethechoice Do you mean a liberal arts university like Brown, which have a extremely good CS dept? Some universities will offer CS in the college of engineering and the college of Arts and Science, like Cornell, so you can take more liberal arts electives in College of Arts and Science than the COEngineering program. They say jobs offers are similar for either. </p>
<p>Do you mean a liberal arts university like Brown, which have a extremely good CS dept? Some universities will offer CS in the college of engineering and the college of Arts and Science, like Cornell, so you can take more liberal arts electives in CAS than the COE program. They say jobs offers are similar for either. Berkeley has the same set up but some have mentioned tha EECS is the more famous program, that is likely so but I doubt a CS in the arts and letters will go jobless.</p>
<p>This idea that small undergraduate-focused schools specializing in STEM can’t be LACs just strikes me as wrong-headed. LACs provide individualized attention to undergrads leading to a high production rate of PhDs . . . and so do the small STEM schools! LACs often have a tight alum and student body . . . and so do the small STEM schools!</p>
<p>Remember that the original liberal arts curriculum emphasized knowledge of the sciences and quantitative skills just as much as the humanities and language skills. So why should a humanities-heavy undergraduate-focused school be considered a LAC but a STEM-heavy undergraduate-focused school not be? </p>
<p>Don’t want to hijack thread, so bumped my S’s description under thread “Please help refine search”</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd actually is a liberal arts college. Also, it shares a Claremont campus with Pomona, Pitzer, Claremont-McKenna and Scripps. It is very unique and hard to compare to anything else. </p>
<p>Here’s how HMC describes itself:
<a href=“About | Harvey Mudd College”>https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/</a></p>