<p>Do you apply separately to the Tufts engineering school? Let say you are interested in both the engineering and the liberal arts school do you mark that in the application ? </p>
<p>My son wants to study engineering but he does not want to work as a typical engineer. He wants to have a technical degree and then move on to other things such as management, innovation etc (he has grand ideas I do not always follow). Do you think Tufts would be a good place for such a student?</p>
<p>I am thinking he is looking for a tech engineering school that has a vibe other than just strickly pre-professional school, or for a liberal arts school that allows for a technical degree.</p>
<p>You apply either to Tufts School of Engineering or to the Arts & Sciences School. Many engineers minor or double minor in a liberal arts field.
My son, a Tufts engineer, will not be working in an engineering field, but in business.<br>
Take a look at the offerings of the Gordon Institute, including the Entrepreneurial Leadership minor: [Tufts</a> Gordon Institute - Engineering Management & Entrepreneurship](<a href=“http://gordon.tufts.edu/]Tufts”>http://gordon.tufts.edu/)</p>
<p>Tufts doesn’t have a business degree. So it is a great school for combining engineering with liberal arts including economics, but not business per se.
Lots of engineering schools do have business as well - examples would be Northeastern, WPI, RPI. These are more pre-professional environments than Tufts would be.<br>
So it depends on what specifically he is looking for, one type of school may appeal to him more than another.</p>
<p>If you are asking whether someone can apply to both A&S and Engineering, I believe the answer is “no,” but the application should answer that question.<br>
Your son should apply to the school that better suits his interests. If an engineering major is likely, then he should apply to the SOE, and simply do a second major or a minor in A&S if that’s his inclination.</p>
<p>If he wants a degree from both A&S and engineering, he applies to both (I think) and is required to stay for five years. If he merely wants two majors, he applies to engineering and takes a second LA major.</p>
<p>I do not mean the dual degree (5 years).
I was just wondering if the same applicant can be considered in both applicant pools (engineering -liberal arts).
For example rejected from the engineering school but accepted from the liberal arts school to study sciences/math.
I heard of a similar story at another school but no idea if that could happen at Tufts.</p>
<p>^^That’s how I understood your question. I think that you apply to one school - A&S or SOE. If he gets in and changes his mind, transferring from one to the other is usually easy.</p>
<p>Thank you! I am still in the learning curve of how all this is going to work out. He has a lot of ideas of what he wants to do and some of those ideas are contradictory and do not make sense to me.</p>