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Not quite true. Although Mudd itself offers only STEM departments, students are welcome to major in any of the disciplines at other Claremont colleges as long as they minor in a field at Mudd. It’s perfectly possible to go to Harvey Mudd and major in classics or dance.</p>
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Well, that depends on what you’re looking for.
[ul][li]If you are at all interested in pre-professional fields like nursing, architecture, agriculture, and the like, you’ll probably have to look at medium or large universities (e.g. Cornell, Michigan, Washington). </p>[/li]
<p>[li]If you’re mostly interested in liberal arts but have extremely specialized interests like East Asian studies or Egyptology, you might be best off looking at small or medium universities (e.g. Tufts, WUStL, Yale). </p>[/li]
<p>[li]If you’re mostly interested in liberal arts and have interests that range from theatre to biology but nothing super specialized, you’d do perfectly fine at almost any decent LAC. Many top LACs offer quite a good selection of majors, including programs like film studies, neuroscience, and Japanese. For example, the offerings at Bryn Mawr compare quite favorably to those of the much larger Emory.[/ul][/li]You may want to especially consider LACs in a consortium with universities. Examples include Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr (Penn), Amherst, Hampshire, Smith, and Mount Holyoke (U Mass), Goucher (Johns Hopkins), Barnard (Columbia), Wellesley (Brandeis, MIT, others), Agnes Scott (Emory, Georgia Tech, others), Occidental (Caltech), Mills (Berkeley), etc.</p>
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Majors and careers are often only loosely linked and often not linked at all. Be aware of this. One of the most outstanding genetic engineers I know has a PhD in anthropology (!). Incidentally, she attended a liberal arts college.</p>
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Assuming you can afford them, I would focus on liberal arts colleges and small/medium universities for those interests. They’re hardly such specialized interests that you need a huge university. </p>
<p>If you are extremely interested in engineering, small/medium universities are probably best. Among liberal arts colleges, however, you have three options:
[ul][<em>]Attend one of the relatively few LACs with engineering (Swarthmore, Smith, Trinity (TX), Trinity (CT), Union, Lafayette, Bucknell, etc.)
[</em>]Complete a 3+2 or 4+2 program (pick a guaranteed program to avoid problems)
[*]Major in math/physics and do a master’s in engineering[/ul]</p>