Best STEM at a liberal arts school?

circuitrider
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:00:07 +0000

@MinuticusMinimus

@Qwerty568 Thanks a lot for the response! Thanks for the insight on all those schools. Colby, Midd, and Wes could easily fall off the list.

WOAH. Stop. I don’t know where @Qwerty568 got the idea that Wesleyan was weak in the sciences. It’s the only LAC on your list that DOES offer STEM courses through the PhD level. It receives more federal research money than several Claremont colleges put together and as @merc81 mentioned upstream, Wesleyan undergraduates have won the prestigious Apker Prize in physics, but - unlike the other LACs on that list - it was in the “research university” category and against “major league” competition like Harvard, MIT, Caltech, et al. No list of LACs with millions of dollars in outside funding is complete without Wesleyan.