<p>The table is flawed in some ways. Harvey Mudd is amazing for engineering, no doubt, and produces perhaps the highest percentage of PhDs in engineering besides maybe MIT and CalTech.</p>
<p>USC is considered to be a medium sized school, I believe. Like many schools, it has multiple schools within its large name. The distinction between LAC and Uni is not clear-cut, but I don’t know anyone who would call USC, as a whole, a liberal arts college. The same is true of Berkeley. I am in the “liberal arts college” within Berkeley (called Letters and Sciences), but obviously I go to a university (not that the distinction really changes my life).</p>