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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of them appear to be slacs, and STEM degrees are a lot more popular then ever before.[/quote]

SLACs also offer STEM degrees.

"Liberal arts education (from Latin liberalis "free" and ars "art or principled practice"), also known as the liberal arts and pure sciences, is the traditional academic course of study in Western higher education." --Wikipedia[/quote]

The top places to study STEM do not include SLACs[/quote]

DP: SLACs represent a TINY portion of the student body and STEM students do very well from them. But their numbers are far too tiny to ever be listed as a "top" school for STEM.  But for the students that go, the have excellent outcomes.  There are many, many STEM students at universities who end up dropping out of STEM that would have been more likely to persist at it in a SLAC.  With the exception of engineering, SLACs really are a strong, viable option for STEM that too many students overlook.  Look at the weed-out rates for STEM degrees in many universities, the difficulty of entering into preferred majors etc.  There's little to none of that at SLACs.[/quote]

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