Best STEM at a liberal arts school?

rayrick
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:45:33 +0000

There are a lot of other threads on this topic:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1792411-best-lacs-for-science-p1.html
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1737399-which-top-liberal-arts-college-has-the-strongest-science-programs-p1.html

That second thread has a lot of tables of which LACs produce the most Ph.Ds is various disciplines.

Regarding specific schools, if you’re willing to look outside the northeast, I think Carleton is at or very near the top of the list of LACs for strength in sciences. Reed and Grinnell are also very strong non-northeast schools in science. I also have to differ with @Qwerty568 regarding sciences at Wesleyan. They’re plenty strong.

There are a lot of great choices out there. You’re probably going to want to sort out what other aspects of a college you value to decide among them.