“2-3” Good Reasons to Consider Applying to a Liberal Arts School that Offers a 3-2 Engineering Program,”
as supported by Lynn O’Shaughnessy’s article,
3-2 Engineering Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges.
- First, consider the “perks that a liberal arts college can provide, including small classes, great interactions with professors, internship opportunities, and the freedom to explore…academic passions.”
- Second, why choose between two compelling choices when you can “get the best of both worlds:” a small college and a university experience-a small and large school setting?
- Third, you can attend an Ivy, like Columbia University (after all) or for 2/3 of your college experience.
| Lynn O’Shaughnessy endorses the 3-2 Engineering Programs by sharing that “in small classroom settings, they [students] are well prepared for the rigors of engineering—and sometimes better prepared than those who start at engineering schools where classes are typically much bigger. Employers love the liberal arts/engineering majors since they not possess the technical skills, but also know how to write papers, make presentations, and think beyond the requirements of an engineer.” |
O’Shaughnessy reminds us of our roots and the road that soon-to-be freshmen students have been on perhaps since pre-school when they learned their A,B,C’s and 1,2,3’s. You might remember your pre-school teachers telling you: “You get what you get, and you don’t get upset,” but that mantra does not necessarily have to follow you into your college years. Rather, if you’re currently applying to college as an Engineering major, you might not have to make a difficult choice between a small liberal arts college and a large university. You can take advantage of the existing, and potentially growing, options to study for 3 years at an esteemed, small, liberal arts college and then, spend 2 years at a larger institution such as, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, University of Michigan, RPI, Vanderbilt University, Carnegie Mellon University, WPI, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University; there are many options. That’s the kind of sharing, sharing your time on two different campuses, which eighteen year-olds can embrace in the many years since the pre-school playground.
O’Shaughnessy’s above-mentioned point takes you even farther along your path and into adulthood, where being a product of a 2-3 Engineering program will likely make you more marketable for your honed literacy and personable skills, on top of your technical skills.
Just as “good things come in small packages,” an Engineering degree at a large university can come in the package of a small liberal arts college in the form of a 2-3 Engineering program. In other words, we shouldn’t underestimate anyone, like pre-schoolers, or anything, like liberal arts colleges, because of their size.
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