<p>Bard offers joint engineering degrees with other institutions, including Columbia. Maybe you can have the best of both worlds? I don’t know how the scholarship would work for the final two years. But you could certainly find out! [Academics</a> | Engineering](<a href=“http://www.bard.edu/academics/additional/additional_pop.php?id=183017]Academics”>http://www.bard.edu/academics/additional/additional_pop.php?id=183017)
In affiliation with the Schools of Engineering at Columbia University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Dartmouth College, Bard offers programs of study leading to degrees in engineering. Under the 3-2 program, a student transfers to the school of engineering at the end of the junior year at Bard and, upon completing that two-year program, qualifies for both a B.A. degree from Bard and a B.S. degree in engineering from the other school.</p>
<p>As for Wesleyan - it’s a terrific school.</p>
<p>As for the quality of the academics - Columbia SEAS vs. Bard or Wesleyan - that is debatable. Not being in the sciences I can’t answer that - but you won’t have any TA’s teaching at either Bard or Wesleyan, and no grad students competing for resources.</p>