<p>What would the best liberal arts colleges be for a student looking to major in any of the sciences? (bio/chem/phys) </p>
<p>Which LAC has the strongest science background, facility, or research opportunity?</p>
<p>Or which LAC's produces the highest acceptance rate to a dental/medical school post graduation?</p>
<p>List as many as possible in some what of a ranking order...thanks!</p>
<p>Amherst, Williams, Carleton, Bates, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Harvey Mudd are some. There are many more. No real order. Amherst has a great premed website with many details. Just about anyone who wanted to go to med school made it the first or second time. Bates says they have 100% med school acceptance most years, too.</p>
<p>Reed
Grinnell
Trinity
Macalester
Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd is a math, sciences, and engineering specific LAC. It does have excellent research opportunities, teaching faculty, overall outstanding academics. However, there is a lot of grade deflation, so your GPA may not be the best for medical school.</p>
<p>Oberlins science programs are excellent.</p>
<p>interesteddad provided this very helpful information on another thread... LACs are well-represented among the top 100.</p>
<p>Here are the 100 colleges an universities that have the highest percentage of their graduates going on to get a PhD in science, math, or engineering over the most recent 10 year period. It might give you some good ideas:</p>
<p>PhDs per 1000 graduates </p>
<p>Academic field: All Engineering, Hard Science, and Math
PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database</p>
<p>Number of Undergraduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database</p>
<p>Formula: Total PhDs divided by Total Grads</p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period </p>
<p>1 California Institute of Technology 34%
2 Harvey Mudd College 24%
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 16%
4 Reed College 10%
5 Rice University 9%
6 Swarthmore College 8%
7 Princeton University 8%
8 Carleton College 7%
9 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 7%
10 University of Chicago 7%
11 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 7%
12 Case Western Reserve University 7%
13 Harvard University 6%
14 Carnegie Mellon University 6%
15 Johns Hopkins University 6%
16 Haverford College 6%
17 Grinnell College 6%
18 Cornell University, All Campuses 6%
19 Kalamazoo College 5%
20 Stanford University 5%
21 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 5%
22 Yale University 5%
23 Cooper Union 5%
24 Oberlin College 5%
25 Lawrence University 5%
26 Bryn Mawr College 5%
27 Williams College 5%
28 Pomona College 5%
29 Colorado School of Mines 4%
30 Bowdoin College 4%
31 Earlham College 4%
32 Brown University 4%
33 University of Rochester 4%
34 University of California-Berkeley 4%
35 Wabash College 4%
36 Duke University 4%
37 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 4%
38 Amherst College 4%
39 Stevens Institute of Technology 4%
40 St Olaf College 4%
41 Hendrix College 4%
42 Beloit College 4%
43 University of Missouri, Rolla 4%
44 University of California-San Francisco 4%
45 Occidental College 4%
46 Alfred University, Main Campus 4%
47 Allegheny College 4%
48 Whitman College 4%
49 College of Wooster 4%
50 SUNY College of Environmental Sci & Forestry 4%
51 Mount Holyoke College 4%
52 Bates College 4%
53 College of William and Mary 4%
54 Knox College 4%
55 Franklin and Marshall College 3%
56 Georgia Institute of Technology, Main Campus 3%
57 Washington University 3%
58 Long Island University Southampton Campus 3%
59 Macalester College 3%
60 University of California-San Diego 3%
61 Dartmouth College 3%
62 Wellesley College 3%
63 Trinity University 3%
64 Juniata College 3%
65 Ripon College 3%
66 University of California-Davis 3%
67 Florida Institute of Technology 3%
68 Polytechnic University 3%
69 Michigan Technological University 3%
70 Columbia University in the City of New York 3%
71 Lehigh University 3%
72 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3%
73 Centre College 3%
74 Hampshire College 3%
75 University of Pennsylvania 3%
76 Wesleyan University 3%
77 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 3%
78 Colorado College 3%
79 Bucknell University 3%
80 Davidson College 3%
81 Northwestern Univ 3%
82 Texas Lutheran University 3%
83 St John's College (both campus) 3%
84 Furman University 3%
85 Hope College 3%
86 Clarkson University 2%
87 University of Virginia, Main Campus 2%
88 Illinois Institute of Technology 2%
89 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ 2%
90 Union College (Schenectady, NY) 2%
91 University of California-Santa Cruz 2%
92 Lafayette College 2%
93 Brandeis University 2%
94 University of Dallas 2%
95 Rhodes College 2%
96 University of Notre Dame 2%
97 Middlebury College 2%
98 University of Wisconsin-Madison 2%
99 Colgate University 2%
100 Hiram College 2%</p>
<p>Bowdoin, Holy Cross, and Davidson.</p>
<p>Any LAC on that top 100 list would be particularly strong considering that almost none of them except Harvey Mudd, Swarthmore, Union, Lafayette, Bucknell have engineering programs; so those numbers would be derived completely from hard sciences or math.</p>