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[quote=Anonymous]The NCES "College Navigator" can show you how many students at a given college are majoring in CS.

Look at "Programs/Majors".
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=202523#programs

Carleton had 56 CS majors in the 2018 graduating class: a very large amount for a LAC, at least compared to East Coast and Southern ones I had looked at previously.
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Carleton&s=all&id=173258#programs

Swarthmore had 54 CS majors, also very high for a LAC.
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Swarthmore&s=all&id=216287#programs

Williams had 45 majors
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=williams&s=all&id=168342#programs

Grinnell had 37 CS majors
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=grinnell&s=all&id=153384#programs

Colgate had 36 CS majors
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=colgate&s=all&id=190099#programs

Middlebury had 30 CS majors
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=middlebury&s=all&id=230959#programs

Bowdoin had 29 CS majors
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=bowdoin&s=all&id=161004#programs

Barnard had 19 CS majors
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=barnard&s=all&id=189097#programs

Denison had 17 CS majors
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=denison&s=all&id=202523

Oberlin had 17
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=oberlin&s=all&id=204501#programs

Colby had 11 CS majors
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=colby&s=all&id=161086#programs

Goucher had 5
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=goucher&s=all&id=162654#programs

Pitzer had 3
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=pitzer&s=all&id=121257#programs

Ohio Wesleyan had 3
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=ohio+wesleyan&s=all&id=204909#programs

Davidson had 1 CS major, so unless I knew otherwise (perhaps that there were a ton of CS minors, or that some CS majors were classified as engineering or math in their stats), I wouldn't send a student there as a prospective CS major.
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Davidson&s=all&id=198385#programs

Kenyon lists Scientific Computing as a major, but doesn't list any grads with that major in NCES, so I'd ask questions.
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=kenyon&s=all&id=203535#programs

My student is at a medium-sized school majoring in something where there are only 9 other majors a year, but it's not a large major at any college (or it's folded into a related STEM department), there are plenty of upper-level courses offered, and a good number of students minoring in it. So I'm not concerned about his access to classes or resources.
 
But for CS at a LAC, I might rule out any LAC with just a few CS majors, and check into those with 10-15 and up, with a focus on if all the courses are offered every year, if all the courses your student might want to take are currently offered, and whether students have difficulty getting into upper-level classes.  For the schools with 25-30 and up, same thing, and compare to the ones with 10-15 and up.

Look at post #26 in this College Confidential thread (a few years old) to see what to look for in LAC CS departments, to see if they have classes in specific areas:  https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/math-computer-science-majors/1814245-computer-science-at-some-smaller-schools-including-liberal-arts-colleges.html
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