Balanced Schools

College Search & Lists
1

<p>I was wondering if there’s a college out there that has strong sciences/engineering programs but ALSO has a really big music, art, and drama scene. Academics are very important, (especially the sciences!) but I don’t want to go to a school that’s entirely made of one type of academically-driven person…
…If only we could chose the people and atmosphere from some chilled out, artsy/indie school and mix it with ivy or MIT academics.</p>

<p>Please help!!!</p>

2

<p>carnegie mellon</p>

3

<p>Northwestern and Michigan as well.</p>

4

<p>Columbia (about 35-40% of undergrads are math, sci and engineering majors), Stanford, Berkeley, Yale-Harvard-Chicago to some extent (lean less towards eng, Chicago has no engineering), Princeton to some extent (leans more towards math,sci,eng),</p>

5

<p>Even a school like MIT isn’t composed of one type of person – although most students major in science and engineering, almost everybody does something on the side to blow off steam. About 60% of MIT undergrads are involved in music or the arts, mostly as extracurriculars.</p>

<p>So the difference between MIT and other schools is that few students are actually art and science majors, but many students are individually passionate about non-technical subjects.</p>

6

<p>Northwestern has top music, film, and theater programs. There are lots of quality shows throughout the academic year. Dolphin Show produces the nation’s largest student-run musical. Waa-Mu is another big-time show but entirely student written. Chemistry, industrial engineering & management sciences, material sciences are ranked in the top-10.</p>

<p><a href=“http://chicagotheaterblog.com/2009/04/30/northwestern-universitys-78th-annual-waa-mu-show-opening-this-weekend/[/url]”>http://chicagotheaterblog.com/2009/04/30/northwestern-universitys-78th-annual-waa-mu-show-opening-this-weekend/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;