Anonymous wrote:St. John's College

+1

It's not either/or. There are many STEM types that have a deep and abiding interest in the humanities. From Einstein to Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking and on and on. There's an old expression - God speaks in two languages: music and mathematics. A good university community will listen to both. A college that only pays attention to humanities is functionally deaf in one ear. But if that's their thing, maybe look into Bennington College. Or Hampshire College.

Look into Kenyon, particularly for its Integrated Program in Humane Studies.

https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/integrated-program-in-humane-studies/

Anonymous wrote:You're not going to find much. People these days want trade schools rather than higher education.

Agreed. Econ is the big rave at all of these schools.

Anonymous wrote:Reed

Highly recommend. A lot of the WASP colleges have essentially just become economics and math schools for pre-consulting students. The liberal arts is lost on many of those colleges. Look towards dedicated, intense colleges.

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown

Weird answer. A school best known for its foreign service, business, and health sciences offerings.

PP - should say it doesn't mean they don't recruit and support excellent humanities faculty.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at one of those schools and has friends happily in humanities majors. Just because a school emphasizes the STEM offerings doesn't mean they're not strong for humanities.

+1 - The STEM buildings are often new and have fancy labs and expensive equipment that the schools want to show off. A building for English lectures looks like a building with classrooms. But that doesn't mean they don't recruit and support excellent faculty. Carleton's president is an English prof and teaches a course every year (or two?). Many of these schools have art collections. You can always ask to speak to a student in "x" department - pretty sure all schools have some sort of ambassador program for exactly this reason.

Georgetown

My kid is at one of those schools and has friends happily in humanities majors. Just because a school emphasizes the STEM offerings doesn't mean they're not strong for humanities.

Reed

St. John's College

Or, they’re chasing the notion that their kid will be the next tech genius. lol.

You're not going to find much. People these days want trade schools rather than higher education.

DS and I originally were looking at liberal arts colleges but every single one we've toured-Williams, Pomona, Carleton, Swarthmore-has overemphasized STEM and Science research. Our Pomona tour spent more time talking about a pre-med's lab opportunities than student life; they even took us through the math and physics building, but didn't take us anywhere near the humanities buildings! We want a humanities oriented school and at this point, DS is looking towards Yale because of the lack of representation of the humanities during these tours. Anyone else going through something similar?