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<p>Actually, you could get a terrific liberal arts education at MIT, though that’s not what it’s best known for and relatively few admitted students go there for liberal arts. MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences has departments or programs in anthropology, international studies, economics, foreign languages and literatures, history, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, science-technology-and-society, theater, women’s and gender studies, and writing and humanistic studies. Many of these faculties are among the world’s most distinguished in their respective fields. What’s missing from this list, of course, are math and science, core elements in a liberal arts education, but MIT’s got those in spades in its School of Science. And if that’s not enough, MIT students can cross-register for classes at Harvard, Wellesley, the Mass college of Art and Design, and the School of the Museum of fine Arts in Boston. Bottom line, I’d say MIT has one of the finest liberal arts programs in the country, but it’s a hidden gem.</p>