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05-11-2008, 08:35 AM
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| What LACs have enrollment of 5,000+?
I'm making a list of colleges and universities and trying to give examples of each with different sizes of undergrad population.
I'm struggling to find LACs with enrollment over 5,000 and within 400 miles of Baltimore/Washington.
Any suggestions? (Perhaps there are none?)
Thanks.
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05-11-2008, 08:47 AM
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| I cannot think of LACs with over 3,000 students. The closest thing to a LAC woith 4,000+ undergrads within 400 miles of the DC area are Brown University, Dartmouth College and William and Mary. | |
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05-11-2008, 08:56 AM
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| That's what I thought. Thanks.
Anyone else? | |
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05-11-2008, 09:20 AM
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| Those would actually be classified as small universities, and I think they provide the best of both worlds. | |
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05-11-2008, 10:59 AM
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| I'm currently a junior and was just like you. But then I realized that the point of LACs is to provide a small learning environment. So yea, Dartmouth and Brown mimic LACs somewhat, but if you really want to get the environment of a true LAC, the smaller ones are better IMO. | |
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05-11-2008, 12:58 PM
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| Big LAC's include Smith, Oberlin, Bucknell, Richmond, Colgate, Furman. Small universitites like Clark, Tufts, Wake Forest, Brandeis, Lehigh, Rochester, and Santa Clara might be LAC-ish. | |
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05-11-2008, 01:00 PM
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| Univ. of Mary Washington | |
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05-11-2008, 01:25 PM
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| It's usually assumed that, with a combined enrollment of 3,834, the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University have the largest enrollment of any college in the national liberal arts category.
Wesleyan, with 2,700 full-time undergraduates, is also one of the largest. | |
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05-11-2008, 01:49 PM
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| I am not sure if it is classified as a LAC, but The College of New Jersey. | |
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05-11-2008, 05:42 PM
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| Dartmouth, Brown, W&M, and Princeton function essentially as LACs. They are very well endowed, spend a lot on undergrads, and are very LACish. | |
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05-11-2008, 06:13 PM
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| Others to consider:
Colgate, 2750; Bucknell, 3550, Holy Cross, 2800, Furman, 2750. St. Olaf, 3000, Elon, 4900, College of Charleston, 6800, Providence, 4600 | |
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05-11-2008, 06:31 PM
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| Elon. (10 char). | |
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05-11-2008, 06:41 PM
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| The Claremont Colleges have an enrollment of ~5500,
The largest is Pomona with ~1600. Each of the other four has between 800 and 1000, and then CGU and Keck (non-undergrad) throw in a few more
EDIT: Sorry, didn't see the 400 miles criterion; these are in CA. | |
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05-11-2008, 06:57 PM
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Dartmouth, Brown, W&M, and Princeton function essentially as LACs.
| No they don't. All four of those, for example, have graduate student Teaching Assistants.
William & Mary bears no resemblence whatsoever to any lliberal arts college I've ever seen, other than the fact that it teaches a "liberal arts" curriculum. | |
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05-11-2008, 07:17 PM
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| American University is close. | |
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