Comparing outcomes at places like Columbia would be fascinating. Not sure I agree about liberal arts colleges writ large. The tippy-top tier are pretty great.

Comparing outcomes at places like Columbia would be fascinating. Not sure I agree about liberal arts colleges writ large. The tippy-top tier are pretty great. But the ones in our region have... eclectic... CS faculty. Random math phds and early retirement from industry types. Entire departments taken together have single digit H-indices. I'm sure they're great teachers and all, but... $25K+/yr for the same sort of de facto non-academic retired/shifted-from-industry instructors you can get at any coding bootcamp or community college is robbery. Especially when the state school next door is about the same price and has a real faculty still pushing the edges of the field.