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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Majors certainly matter in STEM fields and premed. You cannot go into Engineering or a Chem PhD without a core of required science classes. Overall, SLACs are relatively weaker in the Sciences than big state university. You just cannot justify large expensive equipment when you may have just 3 professors using it. Hard core science research requires a lot of money. Also, having grad students helps a lot as research is very time intensive.[/quote] This is blatantly wrong. Of the top 15 schools for STEM PhD production, 9 are LACs (http://www.swarthmore.edu/institutional-research/doctorates-awarded, second column). You can see more detailed information by discipline; the only area where there aren't many LACs represented is engineering. Not very surprising when maybe like 3 or 4 of them have an engineering program, total. [/quote] I know someone who went to Swarthmore for engineering and is now a Prof of EE in the ivy league. It happens.[/quote] Swarthmore is one of the few SLACs that offers an engineering major.[/quote]
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