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<p>I completely fail to see what this has to do with anything. Harvey Mudd only offers a single engineering major. That’s right - one major. Caltech only offers 4 undergrad engineering majors - Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, and EAS (Engineering and Applied Sciences). Mechanical has been offered only since 2003. That’s right. You can’t get a formal undergrad Caltech degree in Civil Engineering, Aerospace engienering, Materials Science, Bioengineering, Environmental Engineering, etc. You can study these fields, but you will be formally awarded an EAS degree. </p>
<p>Don’t believe it? Take a gander at the Caltech commencement data. Find me a single person who has graduated with a BS eng degree in anything other than the 4 choices I mentioned. You can’t do it. And in fact, try to find me a person before 2003 who graduated with a formal BS ME degree. Again, you can’t do it. Prior to 2003, ME’s were wrapped into the EAS superset. </p>
<p><a href=“http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/05/bs.pdf[/url]”>http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/05/bs.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/04/bs.pdf[/url]”>http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/04/bs.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/03/bs.html[/url]”>http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/03/bs.html</a>
<a href=“http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/02/bs.html[/url]”>http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/02/bs.html</a>
<a href=“http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/01/bs.html[/url]”>http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/01/bs.html</a></p>
<p>The point is, I completely fail to see why the fact that Harvard offers only 3 engineering majors, by itself, has anything to say about the quality of Harvard engineering. If that’s true, what does that have to say about Harvey Mudd or Caltech?</p>