<p>sakky,</p>
<p>Sorry for not being clear. When I mentioned Harvard only had 3 majors, my point was to say it’s program is “limited”. It’s not a top-15 program to me because, well, I just haven’t seen anything that lists it in the top-15. You brought up Caltech; well, Caltech looks more limited than, say, Berkeley, but it still offers much more (in terms of number of concentrations, courses offered, majors that are “major” engineering disciplines (ChemE, ME, EE)) than Harvard. Applied math and computer science are technically not major engineering fields and some schools even put them in their arts and sciences division instead of engineering (Harvard actually awards them as “bachelor of arts”). Within the ES major, none of the concentrations is equivalent to a full-blown major elsewhere. Harvey Mudd is limited in engineering. The program looks more like a mini-EE than anything else. That’s probably the reason their webpage mentions only EBay, Google, Microsoft (instead of biotech/chemical/manufacturing/auto/geotechical/civil/environmental firms) as some of the companies their recent graduates work for. Good luck if you want to have choices for courses in biomedical/chemical/mechanical/material sciences…etc. An astonishing 50% of graduates go to grad schools and that’s where they get to study civil, chemical, biomedical engineering…etc.</p>