LAC physics

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@intparent

Those LAC students also may develop better writing and critical thinking skills than the average research university student does, too. Some LACs (like Harvey Mudd, for example) think those non-science skills are essential – and they have pretty darned good physics PhD production numbers to prove out their approach.

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<p>I’m not sure why this is commonly considered a characteristic specific to LACs. Harvey Mudd has extensive breadth requirements, as do some research universities like MIT. At the other end of the scale, there are schools with minimal or no breadth requirements, including both LACs like Amherst and research universities like Brown.</p>