Which schools in the U.S are known as math/science/tech schools besides MIT/Caltech?
I’m talking about schools where I would be surrounded by nerds who want to study all day and are narrowly focuses in math and science, and where the concentration of other kinds of majors (humanities, business, etc) is much lower than compared to STEM majors.
Harvey Mudd, RIT,
There are a lot of nerds at Stanford who are pursuing STEM fields.
Colorado School of Mines
Case Western and Carnegie Mellon have significant nerd populations.
Georgia Tech
RPI especially
Some not already named:
(public)
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
(private)
Illinois Institute of Technology
Kettering University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Webb Institute
Worchester Polytechnic Institute
Be aware that some engineering focused schools, like MIT and Harvey Mudd, have extensive humanities and social studies breadth requirements.
They aren’t that extensive. My Mudder has had 1-2 humanities courses per semester, and 3 or more STEM classes every semester. She is pretty STEM immersed. Especially because they squish some classes that would be full semester at other schools down to a quarter, and load them up with those.
With all 5s on the APs Carnegie Mellon let my CS son take almost nothing but math and science courses. He had to take two writing courses (one specifically CS oriented), one World History Course and one other Social Science course, he almost took Abnormal Psych, but ended up taking something to do with Machine Language Learning I think. It was sort of appalling how unrounded his education ended up being, but he loved it. He’d have gotten out of at least two of those courses if he’d taken AP Euro or World or one of the English APs.
Olin College of Engineering
WPI
@mathmom: CMU sounds fantastic, a narrowly focused math/science education is exactly what im looking for. Are you referring to 5’s on AP’s in non stem subjects? Also how many would you need to do what your son did?
https://www.hmc.edu/hsa/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2014/01/Concept-Map-of-Requirements-111414.pdf
Yes, the STEM intensity at Harvey Mudd is higher than the HSA intensity. However, the 12 HSA courses, including required breadth across subjects and depth in one subject, is more extensive than most other schools’ requirements in those areas. It is also a far greater number of HSA courses than the number of courses that HSA majors at most other schools take in STEM.
There are lots of non-STEM majors at CMU as well 
I’ll throw in Brown/Grinnell/URochester for (semi) open curricula, if you’re willing to loosen up on the majority STEM majors requirement. Grinnell and Brown only have writing requiremen’s and Rochester only requires writing+one “cluster” each in humanities/social science. I checked the list of clusters and you could take 3 philosophy courses related to science in the “Knowledge, Mind, and Nature” humanities cluster and 3 “Introduction to Economics” or “Politics and Mathematics” cluster courses for social sciences and you would be set.
More STEM heavy schools:
(public)
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Oregon Institute of Technology
(private)
Florida Institute of Technology
Milwaukee School of Engineering
12 HSAs over 8 semesters translates into 1.5 per semester. It just isn’t that onerous. They CAN take more if they want to, though.
@alwadiya I wouldn’t describe CMU as being a narrowly focused math/science education. A sizable chunk of that school is devoted to business, humanities, and the arts. Georgia Tech fits your criteria well, as it is over 70% STEM majors. Plus we have more than our fair share of nerds.
Rose Hulman
He had 5s in AP USH, Econ Macro and Latin so that got him out of many gen ed requirements. The rest (sciences, math, CS) got him into higher level courses. Just about all US colleges are going to have some kind of Gen Ed requirement and there are usually STEM friendly courses to fulfill them. I do think it’s important to learn to write and communicate and IME many high schools do a terrible job of it.
Because of the way CMU is put together in separate schools, it’s easy to stay in your bubble. My kids friends were nearly all from CS.
At a large enough school you can effectively ensure that virtually all of your friends are STEM majors. If you have AP credits, you can often skip out on most required non STEM classes, particularly at public schools.
For instance, UC Irvine (a school I am extremely familiar with) has a number of strong programs, many of which are not STEM. What difference does it make to an electrical engineering major that the Persian studies program is excellent? The vast majority of classes will be STEM, he can choose to only participate in STEM based extracurriculars, and after freshman year can opt to live with only those studying engineering or something else.