Why Choose Swarthmore Engineering?
Are you curious about Swarthmore College’s Engineering Department? Do you want to know how it is different from engineering programs elsewhere? Please read on… Unlike most other undergraduate engineering programs, Swarthmore’s is not a School of Engineering, but rather an Engineering Department, like the English or Philosophy or Biology departments. We don’t require students to commit to an engineering major before arrival; indeed, we don’t even ask them to declare a major until Spring of their sophomore year. That said, Engineering, like all sciences, builds upon prerequisite courses, so we urge students possibly interested in Engineering to get an early start on the basic Math and Science courses that are prerequisites for later Engineering courses. While in most other Engineering programs, a student may have half or two-thirds of total undergraduate coursework as Engineering courses, here it is about a third (12 Engineering courses out of 32 required for graduation, but many stude
