What could be better than Harvard?

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Considering that Harvard has the biggest endowment of any university in the world, if it wanted to become a top engineering school, it could. But that’s not its goal. Harvard is not a trade school. Therefore, even the engineering program at Harvard is centered around a strong liberal arts tradition. If you want trade school, go elsewhere.

This type of elitist/arogant attitude is another reason some students choose to apply elsewhere.</p>

<p>Having a top engineering program obviously is not synonymous with “trade school”, nor does having a liberal arts emphasis exclude a school from having a top engineering program. Harvard clearly takes improving their engineering program seriously, as they should with an increasingly technology-based world and >13% of the new class of admitted students saying they plan to enter engineering. Harvard has made several major changes over the past 7 years to facilitate this including adding a real engineering school instead of a division, having a plan to get more engineering faculty members, providing more engineering classes, and increasing the number of engineering majors from 1 to 4.</p>