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Stanford has a reputation as a strong math/science school. I'm more of a journalism/history type. I know Stanford has strong programs in those areas too, but does anyone feel the math/science programs outweigh the liberal arts by far?

By Farmmom (Farmmom) on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 12:45 am: Edit

DEGREES CONFERRED at Stanford (from Common Data Set on Stanford website)
Degrees conferred between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003
Category Bachelors
Area and ethnic studies 4.9
Biological/life sciences 6.7
Communications/communication technologies 1.5
Computer and information sciences 10.9
Engineering/engineering technologies 13.4
English 4.9
Foreign languages and literatures 2.6
Interdisciplinary studies 11.0
Liberal arts/general studies 0.6
Mathematics 2.7
Philosophy, religion, theology 2.0
Physical sciences 2.1
Protective services/public administration 1.2
Psychology 4.5
Social sciences and history 28.2
Visual and performing arts 2.8

Total 100

Don't know if these stats help to answer your question but I just remember the president at Stanford saying that more than 1/2 the students at stanford are non-science majors so they are not going to be neglecting the liberal arts but I'm not sure what you mean by "outweigh".

By Rtkysg (Rtkysg) on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 02:05 pm: Edit

Stanford is the best well-rounded school you can have, it's not like Yale with Liberal Arts dominance and not like Caltech/MIT with Tech dominance. Stanford is the combination of those schools. In fact, Stanford's science/tech/engrg classes are sort of laid back, so you can have enough time exploring liberal arts subjects.