LAC accessible with no car

DigitalDad
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:27:19 +0000

Thanks for clarifying the “former” assertion.
It still is the exclusively “… women’s undergraduate college of Columbia University” - in addition to Columbia College, which has been co-ed since the 80’s.

Regardless, I still question the validity of:

circuitrider:

it’s only by a technicality that Barnard is considered a LAC

According to US News, “The National Liberal Arts Colleges emphasize undergraduate education and award at least half of their degrees in the liberal arts fields of study” (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges), or according to the U.S. State Dept (Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)) :

A liberal arts college offers courses in humanities, languages, math, social and natural sciences, and students take 25-50% of their courses in their major.

For the fields of studies and majors at Barnard see:

barnard.edu

Departments and Programs | Barnard College

and for the actual majors awarded in 2021, see from page 8 onward:

Issuu

Barnard Commencement 2021 Program

COMMENCEMENT 2021 Thursday, April twenty-ninth, Six o’clock in the evening PRESENTATION OF DEGREE CANDIDATES Barnard College, New York City

Unless you consider all LAC’s a mere technicality, certainly Barnard College seems to check all boxes - even it’s part of an Ivy League university.