Also, while Tuck offers undergrad Business courses, I’m not sure Dartmouth offers an undergrad business major unless you’re referring to the customized self-designed major. Where did you see it?
With some subjectivity, @Consolation, I consider Princeton’s relative absence of graduate professional schools in comparison to Dartmouth (i.e., business, medical) to indicate a greater overall attention to the core liberal arts disciplines that are the primary focus of most liberal arts colleges.
@Scipio, Dartmouth does NOT offer undergraduate business. It offers Economics. You are conflating it with Tuck, the business school, which does not offer bachelor’s degrees. D also has not only a medical school, but a graduate school of engineering, Thayer, BTW.
I’m not saying that D is a regular LAC, for heaven’s sake. It is really something between a LAC and a full-fledged research university. Most of the “graduate students” are at the professional schools, not in academic graduate programs. Or studying something allied to those schools. Just look at the list of programs. Do you see History, English, Philosophy or Economics, for example? Although the current president is obviously making an effort to enlarge that part of the university by making it also a separate “school.”
Princeton’s website says it offers 42 graduate programs. D offers 16 PhD programs, and about 5 additional masters programs. (I counted them before, but did not expect that anyone would actually want to argue about the numbers. )
@merc81, I think you would find that the professional schools, with the possible exception of Thayer, where some engineering students take an extra year, are pretty separate from the focus of the College. After all, how much do you think that the existence of Yale Medical School or Harvard Business School impacts the undergraduate concentration on the core liberal arts? I would say not at all. There is virtually no school more devoted to the core liberal arts than the U of C, and they have law, business, and medical schools too. From my experience there, the professional schools have virtually nothing to do with the rest of the university.
Bryn Mawr College offers “earned” Ph.D.s is social work and in selected arts and sciences fields. And Wesleyan calls itself a university but is usually classified as a LAC; it offers Ph.D. programs in music, math, computer science, and some natural sciences. So I’d say there’s no hard and fast dividing line.
But we’re really off-topic now. The original topic was more fun.