Difference between liberal arts college and national research college/university?

<p>“2) Residential - most students are expected to live on campus all 4 years.”</p>

<p>This is not universally true. Macalester does not guarantee on-campus housing all four years. Many Barnard dorms are off campus, D2 lived in one of them. D1 lived off-campus her last year at Oberlin. These are just the schools I am familiar with.</p>