<p>Also Union College outside of Albany, NY. A friend has the same questions as your son: engineering comes easily to her but she still loves philosophy and psych. She’s having a great time at Union. And the engineers who come out of Union do get jobs, even though it’s a LAC.</p>
<p>At University of Rochester, engineers generally “declare” themselves to be engineers at the beginning, to ensure that they can get their prereqs in. However, they can take courses all over the map, and in fact are required to have 3 related courses (called “clusters”) in humanities and social sciences as well as engineering. Moving out of engineering is quite easy, so even if he declares as an engineer, he’s not stuck there if he doesn’t like it.</p>