Harvey Mudd College

Mission: Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities and the social sciences so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society.
Degrees Offered:
Bachelor of science degrees in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics, as well as a fifth-year master-of-engineering degree.
Requirements: Thirty percent of students' course work is required in the humanities and social sciences, the highest percentage for any accredited engineering college in the United States.
* Harvey Mudd College is consistently ranked by Money magazine among the 100 "Best Buys" in higher education. Time/The Princeton Review lists Harvey Mudd College in its survey of "The Best 311 Colleges," ranking HMC eighth nationally in academics. In a study published in Change magazine, in which 212 colleges and universities were ranked, Harvey Mudd College is among an elite group of just 11 institutions that are rated outstanding for both their teaching and their research.
* A Harvey Mudd College student team won the 1997 International Association of Computing Machinery contest, topping more than 1,000 colleges and universities from around the world. Harvey Mudd College is the first undergraduate
institution ever to win in the competition's 50-year history.
* According to data from the National Research Council and the U.S. Department of Education, Harvey Mudd College has the highest percentage of graduates who go on to earn doctoral degrees in science and technology.
* A Ford Foundation study entitled "Undergraduate Origins of Women and Men 1970-1982-Graduates Who Received Doctorates Between 1970 and 1986" showed that nationwide, the leading colleges for production of students who went on to earn engineering Ph.D.s were 1) Caltech, 2) MIT, and 3) Harvey Mudd College. The leading colleges that produced Ph.D. recipients in mathematics and the natural sciences were 1) Caltech, 2) Harvey Mudd College, and 3) MIT.
* Ranges of middle 50 percent of SAT scores of the 1998-99 first-year class: 670-740 verbal; 720-790 math.
* The Harvey Mudd College Engineering Clinic program, founded in 1963, is the first of its kind. Teams of undergraduate students work closely with faculty advisors and industry liaisons to solve problems found in government, business, and industry. Since the clinics began, more than 700 fully sponsored, full-year projects have been sponsored by more than 200 different organizations.