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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PP was not using the term “liberal arts college” correctly.

Precision of language is important, and has been sorely lacking in this thread.

UVA does not have a liberal arts college; it has a CLAS. There is a key difference between the two.[/quote]

Which is what?[/quote]

The student experience is vastly different between being at a liberal arts college versus a CLAS--housed within a university--because of the access the latter gives students to graduate programs. Of course, liberal arts colleges have some graduate programs, but by definition they have fewer than research universities (hence why they're not called research universities).

For some students, access to graduate departments--and the requisite research opportunities and opportunity to build connections with professors who are leaders in their fields--doesn't matter because it doesn't align with their career goals, but for others it's really important.

The other thing is access to professional schools, which most research universities have. If your university has a business school, for example, as an undergrad econ major you can often take upper-level courses at the business school. This isn't possible at LACs, which almost never have business schools. Likewise, of course, with the law and medical schools. [/quote]

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