Cal Tech 3/2 Program
We invite students who are in their junior year at a select group of liberal arts colleges to apply to transfer to Caltech after completing their junior year at their home college. After two years in residence at Caltech and the successful completion of our requirements, 3/2 students will be granted a bachelor of science degree from Caltech as well as a second bachelor's degree from their home liberal arts college.
Participating Colleges
- Bowdoin College (ME)
- Bryn Mawr College (PA)
- Grinnell College (IA)
- Haverford College (PA)
- Mt. Holyoke College (MA)
- Oberlin College (OH)
- Occidental College (CA)
- Ohio Wesleyan University (OH)
- Pomona College (CA)
- Reed College (OR)
- Spelman College (GA)
- Wesleyan University (CT)
- Whitman College (WA)
Areas of Study
Your liberal arts college will let you know which of our options (majors) are available to you. We allow our 3/2 students to transfer into any of the undergraduate options at Caltech.
http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/content/32-program
Columbia Combined Plan Program
You can apply to the Combined Plan program during either your junior year (for the 3-2 program) or senior year (for the 4-2 program). High school students should not apply until you’re enrolled in an undergraduate institution, and should contact your prospective institution for more information. (If you attend an affiliated liberal arts school, your application will receive priority in admission review.)
You should confer with the liaison at your school in order to determine which classes fulfill Columbia pre-engineering foundation and major-specific courses.
http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/combined-plan
Agnes Scott (GA) with Georgia Tech
Albion College with Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Case Western Reserve University and Michigan Technological University
Allegheny College (PA) - http://www.allegheny.edu/academics/programs/coop.php
with Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, Case Western Reserve University, the School of Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh, and the Duke University and Washington University engineering schools
Assumption College (MA) - http://www.assumption.edu/academics/programs/engineering
with the University of Notre Dame and WashU
Austin College (TX) - http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/physics/preengineering/index.html
Affiliated with:
- University of Texas at Dallas
- Texas A&M College Station
- Washington University (St Louis)
- Columbia University.
- University of Richmond
- Columbia University
- George Washington University
- Virginia Tech
Baldwin-Wallace College (OH) - with Case Western Reserve University, Columbia University http://bw.edu/academics/phy/programs/
Bard College and Dartmouth
Beloit College (WI) - with Columbia University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Michigan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Washington University (St. Louis) http://www.beloit.edu/academics/preprofprgms/
Benedictine University (IL) with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Bethany College - a small, private, liberal arts, residential campus located in Lindsborg, Kansas. Their 3+2 program is with Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.
Bowdoin - http://www.bowdoin.edu/physics/engineering
Brandeis University (MA) has a 3-2 with Columbia University (NY) and has a certificate option at Olin College (MA)
California State University in Fresno - http://www.csufresno.edu
Centre College (KY) - with University of Kentucky, Vanderbilt University, Washington University, and Columbia University -http://www.centre.edu/web/academic/majors/engineering.html
Chatham University (PA, women's only at the undergraduate level) with Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Clark University (MA) with Columbia University, NY; Washington University, St. Louis; or Worcester Polytechnic Institute
http://www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/introduction/academicprogram/engineer
Colby College (ME) with Dartmouth College
College of the Holy Cross (MA) - http://www.holycross.edu/academics/32engineering/ (with Columbia and Dartmouth)
College of Wooster (OH) with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Colorado College with RPI
Davidson (NC) - with Columbia and Washington University
DePaul University (IL) with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
DePauw University (IN) with Columbia and Wash U.
Dominican University (IL) with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Drury University (Springfield, MO) with both Washington University (St. Louis) and University of Missouri-Columbia.
Eckerd College with Auburn University, Columbia University, University of Miami and Washington University (St. Louis)
Elmhurst College (IL) with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Fairfield University - http://www.fairfield.edu/x4966.xml
Franklin and Marshall (PA) - affiliated with Case Western University, Columbia University, Pennsylvania State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Washington University in St. Louis
http://server1.fandm.edu/departments/Physics/engineering.html
Furman University with Auburn, Clemson, Georgia Tech, or North Carolina State
Goucher College (MD) with Johns Hopkins
Harvey Mudd has a 3-2 program with Claremont McKenna or Scripps College within the Claremont Colleges.
http://www.hmc.edu/academicsclinicresearch/dualdegreeprograms1.html#ProgramEcoEngineering
Hobart and William Smith - with Dartmouth University, Columbia University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Washington University (St. Louis)
Hood College with George Washington University
Illinois State University
with the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) -http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/programs/PhysEng.html#Glance
Illinois Wesleyan University - http://www2.iwu.edu/academics/preeng.shtml
with Case Western Reserve (Cleveland) and Washington University (St. Louis), Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.) and Columbia University (New York City)
Ithaca College (NY) with Cornell
Lycoming College (PA) with the Waston School of Engineering at Binghamton University (NY)
Lawrence University (WI) - with with Columbia University (New York, New York), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York), and Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri), but students may transfer to any accredited engineering school with the agreement of the chosen institution. http://www.lawrence.edu/academics/gen/coop.shtml
Maryville University (St. Louis, MO) with Washington University (also in St. Louis)
Moravian University (PA) with Washington University and a 4-1 programs with Lehigh University
Mount Holyoke (MA) with Caltech, UMass
Niagara University with the University at Buffalo (SUNY) or the University of Detroit Mercy
Oberlin College (OH) with Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech; Pasadena, California), and Washington University (St. Louis); a partnership with Columbia University (New York) is being created
Occidental (CA) with California Institute of Technology or Columbia University
Ohio Wesleyan with Caltech or Wash U in St. Louis
Pacific University (OR) with Case Western University in OH.
Pepperdine (CA) with the University of Southern California School of Engineering and Washington University School of Engineering in St. Louishttp://seaver.pepperdine.edu/naturalscience/academics/engineering.htm) (
Providence College (RI) with Columbia University and Wash U in St. Louis
University of Puget Sound (WA) - http://www.ups.edu/x3043.xml (WashU, Columbia, Duke, & USC)
Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, VA)
Reed College (Portland, OR) with Columbia, Rensselaer, and Caltech
Rensselaer Polytechnic U (NY) http://admissions.rpi.edu/undergraduate/admission/transfer/3-2-engineering.html with Amherst, Bates, Beloit, Benedict, Clark Atlanta, Colgate, College of St. Rose, Claremont-McKenna, College of William & Mary, Colorado College, Denison, Dickinson, Earlham, Fairfield, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Grinnell, Hamilton, Hobart and William Smith, Hope, Ithaca, Kenyon, Knox, Lawrence University, Lincoln, Middlebury, Morehouse, Morris Brown, Ohio Wesleyan, Pace, Pitzer, Reed, Ripon, Roberts Wesleyan, Russell Sage, St. John Fisher, St. Lawrence, Scripps, Siena, Spelman College, SUNY Fredonia, SUNY Oneonta, The University at Albany, University of the South, Washington & Lee University,
Rhodes College with Wash U or UT Memphis
Ripon College (WI) with UW-Madison, Washington University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Russell Sage College with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Saint Anselm (NH) - http://www.anselm.edu/academics/academic+departments+and+programs/?View=M&ID=5
Saint Francis University (PA) has cooperative agreements with Clarkson University (NY), Penn State, and the University of Pittsburgh
St. John's University/College of St. Benedict's (MN) - http://www.csbsju.edu/catalog/2007_2009/departments/pre-professional/engineering.htm - with the University of St. Thomas
Saint Joseph's College of Maine with Manhattan College
Saint Mary's College (CA) with Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Southern California (USC) Salem College with Duke University
Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, IN) with the University of Notre Dame
Saint Michael's College (Colchester, VT) with the University of Vermont.
Santa Clara University (CA) - http://www.scu.edu/engineering/
Schreiner University (TX)
Scripps (CA) with Harvey Mudd College, Columbia & RPI
Sewanee, The University of the South (TN) with Wash U., Vandy, and Columbia
Southwestern University (TX) with Texas A&M University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Arizona State University
State University of New York (SUNY)
See http://www.suny.edu/student/search_programs/currfd_oas_main.cfm and scroll down the list of available academic programs until you see the Engineering 3:2 listings
Trinity College (CT) with Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) and Union College (NY)
University of Kentucky (KY) - http://www.georgetowncollege.edu/catalog/2006-2007/catalog.htm
University of Michigan - Flint Campus
Flint has some new engineering options designed to feed into the main campus in Ann Arbor
UNC-Asheville (Asheville, NC) with North Carolina State University
University of Richmond - http://www.richmond.edu/prospective/majors/others/engineering.htm
Affiliated with:
- Columbia University
- George Washington University
- Virginia Tech
University of Saint Francis (IL) with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Ursinus (PA)
Vassar College (NY) with Dartmouth
Washington University St. Louis with numerous colleges - https://engineering.wustl.edu/prospective-students/dual-degree/Pages/affiliated-schools.aspx
Wesleyan University (CT) with Caltech and Columbia
Westminster College of Salt Lake City (UT)
with Washington University in St. Louis and University of Southern California
Wheaton College (IL) with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Wheaton College (MA) with Dartmouth
Whitman College (CA) Affiliated with:
- Cal Tech
- Columbia
- Washington University
- Duke
- U of Washington
Whittier (CA) with the University of Southern California and the University of Minnesota
Whitworth College (WA) - http://www.whitworth.edu/Academic/Programs/PreEngineering/Index.htm
with Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Southern California, Columbia University, Seattle Pacific University, and Washington State University
Willamette University with Columbia University
William Jewell College (Liberty, MO, just north of Kansas City) , with Columbia U, Washington U in STL, U of KS, and Vanderbilt
Williams College with Dartmouth