<p>Interesting you should give Mudd as an example. My D is a freshman there, and she has to write a paper this semester on whether Mudd is or isn’t a liberal arts college. Honestly… my vote after watching and listening to her first semester is “not really”. They take a full load of tech courses, and tack one non-tech course on each semester (essentially overloading them compared to every other college out there – 17.5 credits is a normal freshman load each semester). And she says her peers know very little about art, literature, poetry, history, etc – she still likes it a lot and has good friends, but the LAC label doesn’t seem very accurate.</p>