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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was going to say Rose-Hulman too.  OP— DH and I are both SLAC grads.  He’s a software engineer, who believes he benefitted greatly from the reading, writing, small class heavy curriculum and has a huge advantage in his career because he can communicate and problem solve well. We felt very strongly about our kids attending SLACs. One did. The other is at W&M (which is close to being a SLAC) and all the other options were SLACs.  We are all in on small liberal arts schools.  Except for engineering. I would not send a kid to an actual SLAC for engineering.

I think you can be Rose-Hulman, Cooper Union, Olin, etc and do engineering at a small school or undergrad focused engineering. But I don’t think you can get a good engineering education at a true liberal arts school.  And SLACs recognize this and offer the 3+2 and 2+2 programs— which really are the worst of both worlds.

Actual liberal arts is a rigorous program of study. Engineering is a rigorous program of study.  You can’t really do both well— especially on a small campus.

Harvey Mudd is an excellent education.  And may call itself a LAC. But you can’t get a decent humanities major there. It’s isn’t truly a liberal arts college, because good liberal arts colleges benefits from having majors across the humanities-STEM spectrum. [/quote]

Can Harvey Mudd student double major in humanities with classes from other Claremont colleges?[/quote]

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