@1NYparent The smaller grants and projects at liberal arts colleges still allow students to learn the research process. Liberal arts research is a different ballgame than the “big money” research schools, but it prepares equally well for graduate school if not better, because the undergrads are not competing with grad students for meaningful roles.
When you rescale the data by the size of the undergraduate class, there are several liberal arts schools that “punch above their weight” in producing PhD’s and MD’s.