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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you've got two different questions. One is whether to study a liberal arts discipline, and the other is whether or not to choose a small liberal arts college. You can study English at UVA or College Park, or physics at Wellesley or Morehouse. [/quote] This person read my mind. I went to Virginia Tech. With parents from the Northeast, I was expected to go to a Liberal Arts college but we visited Tech on a whim and loved it. It was a great decision. I thought I wanted to do the science thing and I did for several years but ultimately switched majors into History--a liberal arts discipline--and went to law school. Universities give options that smaller liberal arts colleges can't offer. And for the sciences, the Universities typically have larger departments that support Masters and PHD students and thus have teachers and facilities that the typical liberal arts college cannot provide. If the child has no clue what they want to do, then I vote for a University. If they know they want to do a liberal arts degree and then go on to grad school for that discipline, then I think liberal arts colleges may have an edge. Even then, I would push for a University because at 17 I KNEW I wanted to do science. At 20, I KNEW I did not and was happy to have the options my school offered. [/quote] Seems like the predominant view is that if DC "KNOWS" what they want to do...(e.g., go to law school), then Liberal Arts may be the better route to go. Problem is that as this post points out very clearly..people change their minds. Then / when that happens, will the Liberal Arts degree be worth anything?[/quote]
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