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[quote=Anonymous]One way to get a sense of which of these undergraduate focused institutions have the most developed CS curriculums is to count the number of professors in their CS depts. I have made an attempt to do so below for LACs mentioned on this thread and a couple others I thought might be of interest.  I did not include emeritus profs (usually retired) or lecturers (usually either not full time or lack PhDs.) I did include visiting profs. Of course this is a quick and dirty take; faculty count is an interesting data point but is not the full picture. Of course universities will have far larger counts, but then you have to take into account the usual stuff (the undergrads are a third priority after research and grad students, and what time is spent on undergrads is spread over far larger populations.)

1. Harvey Mudd- 18
2. Swarthmore- 16
3. Carleton- 15
4. Williams- 14
4. Middlebury- 14
6. Oberlin- 12
7. Smith- 11
8. Davidson- 9 *
8. Bowdoin- 9
8. Amherst- 9
8. Lafayette- 9
8. Union- 9
13. Grinnell- 8
13. Pomona- 8
13. Denison- 8
16. Hamilton- 6
16. Reed- 6
16. Wesleyan- 6
19. St Olaf- 5
20. Kenyon- 3**

* Davidson doesn’t have a separate CS department but they do have a CS major. The dept is still combined with math, a practice that was common in past decades. I made an attempt to determine how many of the combined faculty are primarily focused on CS based on research interests.

** Kenyon doesn’t have a CS dept or major but a CS “concentration” which is more like an interdepartmental minor.  I made an attempt to determine how many faculty are primarily focused on CS based on research interests. [/quote]

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