<p>Sweet Briar’s engineering program isn’t tiny as a percentage of the class…5.9 percent of the 2012 graduates majored in engineering. <a href=“http://sbc.edu/sites/default/files/Institutional_Research/CDS_2011-2012-PartJ.pdf[/url]”>http://sbc.edu/sites/default/files/Institutional_Research/CDS_2011-2012-PartJ.pdf</a></p>
<p>Only 2 percent of the 2012 Smith graduates majored in engineering.
<a href=“http://www.smith.edu/ir/documents/SmithCollegeCDS_2011-2012_003.pdf[/url]”>http://www.smith.edu/ir/documents/SmithCollegeCDS_2011-2012_003.pdf</a></p>
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<p>[College</a> Offers Engineering Fused with Liberal Arts for Women | The Women’s College Coalition](<a href=“http://www.womenscolleges.org/story/womens-engineering-program]College”>Women's College Coalition | Directory of Women's Colleges & Degrees)</p>
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<p>To be fair, women who are not STRIDE recipients and are interested in doing research do not have to wait until their junior or senior year to do so.</p>