Career path for high-stats undecided kid: yay or nay on engineering?

[Bill_Marsh]

@eyemgh

@UpNorth2019

Agreed, we’ll start looking for engineering exposure/experience for him for this summer.

It’s also important to know that an engineering student may be at a LAC, but that doesn’t mean they will do all the things the LA students do, or take any more arts, history, and social sciences than they would if they attended a traditional engineering program. The curricula are packed with tech classes and ABET requires they all take some general education courses.

You’re absolutely right, of course.

Here’s what I noticed when I was a student at a smaller college (3000+) back in the day, where 40% of the students were engineers. Students could try out engineering first. If they liked it, they stuck with it. But if they didn’t like it they transferred into A&S or Business. And if they transferred into Science, for example, they were studying it in the LAC environment rather than at a large university.

In addition to the LACs which have been mentioned or which are on the list which have been linked, som smaller research universities offer a similar options. Tufts has been mentioned and is an example of such. Rice, Dartmouth, Rochester would be other examples of smaller research universities with strong liberal arts core.