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I went to one (Hamilton College '02), double majored in Computer Science and English, and now I'm the project manager/team lead for a team of software developers (8 currently). Most of them went to big universities (think MIT, Carnegie, Stanford).
If I had to define a "liberal arts" school, it would be a college which accentuates roundness in subjects. The curriculum itself is also more oriented to broad, foundational skills and knowledge vs. job application skills.
For example, my CS courses were predominantly taught on the chalk board. Our curriculum was on stuff like data structure, finite automota, turing machines, breadboarding, finite language sets, discrete theory, kernel level system software, etc. In contrast, the Carnegie and MIT guys I know had 4 years of very advanced programming, but wouldn't know how to build a compiler or anything like that.
Yes I'm painting in broad strokes, but this has been my experience.
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Grant
In the stable: 1938 Buick Special model 41, 1963 Solex 2200, 1973 Vespa Primavera 125, 1974 Vespa Rally 200, 1986 VW Vanagon Syncro Westfalia, 1989 VW Doka Tristar, 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser, 2011 Pursuit 315 OS, 2022 Tesla Y
Gone but not forgotten: 1973 VW Beetle, 1989 Porsche 944, 2008 R56 Mini Cooper S
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