<p>thanks, jared, for the reply and thanks for your patience as I am trying to get a better understanding of LAC, University, Technology Institute, and trade school.</p>
<p>You mentioned MIT as a peer institution. Curiously, my son had just been asking me questions about Noam Chomsky from his AP Psych class he is taking now. I told him he was on the faculty of MIT, and sure enough he is in the linguistics and philosophy dept. </p>
<p>[MIT</a> philosophy faculty](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/faculty.html]MIT”>Faculty – MIT Philosophy)</p>
<p>I would not expect an Institute of Technology to have a philosophy department (thought that would be in an LAC or in the LAS of a university).</p>
<p>I notice that MIT has subjects such as history and philosophy as majors.
<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/majors_minors/index.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/majors_minors/index.shtml</a></p>
<p>And sure enough, I see that RH has some philosophy classes (for a minor, apparently,it says on the website). </p>
<p>[Rose-Hulman</a> Institute of Technology-Catalog](<a href=“404 | Rose-Hulman”>404 | Rose-Hulman)</p>
<p>So I thought from your stmt above that everything a person studies at RH or at Technology Institutes would be in the realm of math, science or engineering. I see that you said ‘major in’ at RH, and you were not characterizing the whole of MITs specific programs. (I was not trying to do a pgm by pgm comparison , RH:MIT, but was just tying to figure out what is included in a technology institute, vs LACs.</p>
<p>Here are RPI’s majors. Does include history philosophy,too.
<a href=“http://www.rpi.edu/academics/index.html[/url]”>http://www.rpi.edu/academics/index.html</a></p>