<p>smilemyonly - Keep in mind that even though some liberal arts colleges have graduate students, they don’t have graduate “schools,” like you mentioned in your original post. In other words, the focus is still on the undergraduate. As mentioned above, many LACs have graduate students (even if called ____ College). LAC’s are not set up like research universities with their undergrad college and separate graduate schools. LACs have their unergrads, and simply “graduate programs” tacked on. </p>
<p>Trinity, for example, only has 150 graduate students compared to 2,100 undergrads. Williams has 50 graduate students and 2,000 grad students. Wesleyan has 175 graduate students and 2,800 undergrads, etc.</p>
<p>I really think you should focus on LAC vs. research university instead of “are there graduate students vs. no graduate students?” The undergrad environment at Colgate, Williams, Wesleyan, etc. is virtually identical to schools like Amherst and Bowdoin (that don’t have any graduate students). A good way to differentiate is using the US News rankings (not for the numbers, just for classification), which employ the Carnegie classifications that distinguish between the LACs and research universities.</p>
<p>Wesleyan has an interesting history… it was chartered as Wesleyan “University” in 1831 despite being undergraduate-only through the 1960’s.</p>