Stanford (Engineering) versus Harvard (Liberal Arts)

From the New York Times on May 30, 2014 by Richard Perex-Pena - To Young Minds Today, Harvard Is the Stanford of the East:

"Last year, 26 percent of Stanford's undergraduate degrees were awarded to computer science or engineering, about three times as many as at Harvard.  At Stanford, about 90 percent of undergraduate students take at least one computer programming class, compared with about half at Harvard.

The disparity has deep cultural roots at many liberal arts institutions: Anything that looked like practical career preparation was seen as something less than real undergraduate education.  Stanford was never like that.  In fact, it has become one of many universities that worry about how far the pendulum has swung away from the humanities."