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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
[b]they are weaker in most STEM fields like engineering and C[/b]S.

Caltech is not a liberal arts college. It has a graduate program.

https://www.cms.caltech.edu/academics/grad[/quote]

Engineering, for the most part yes, but exceptions (e.g., Harvey Mudd, Smith, Bucknell).  But for CS--if you look at overall ranking of colleges, sure--a small liberal arts college with 100 grads in CS is not going to be highly ranked, but they students--especially if you look at slightly longer time horizons, do very well in their careers and the major has a far higher retention rate (and fewer bars to admission in the major) in SLACs than universities.  [/quote]
sure, but we're talking about colleges that are closing because their colleges are losing people.[/quote]

I thought you were talking about LACs.  Anyway, the colleges that are closing are religious colleges and art schools.  So not really any statement on LACs writ large either.[/quote]
but I think the closures will expand to smaller slacs. There are some really small slacs on there. The well known prestigious ones will be fine, but the lesser known ones will start to shut down. They are already seeing enrollment declining. The drop off will speed up the closure of the lesser known slacs.[/quote]

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