b'18UNDERSTAND YOUR OPTIONS :TYPES OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES(continued)University vs. Liberal Arts CollegeUniversities Liberal Arts CollegesOften very large institutions, universities awardRelatively small, liberal arts colleges are private schoolsbachelors, graduate, and professional degrees. They arethat offer majors in areas such as literature, history, generally made up of smaller colleges, including collegeslanguages, economics, science, and math. They are of business, arts and sciences, nursing, education,focused on undergraduate education, characterized and engineering. They also are centers for research.by small class size, and can provide greater access Universities offer students the widest choice of majors. to professors.Private universities cost more than public ones, but they Liberal arts colleges can be more expensive than public can have more funding available for financial aid. universities, but often can provide more financial aid.Options to Explore: Arcadia UniversityDrexel UniversityOptions to Explore: Albright CollegeBryn Mawr CollegeGwynedd Mercy UniversityLehigh UniversityPenn StateDickinson CollegeFranklin & Marshall CollegeUniversitySaint Josephs UniversityTemple UniversityUniversityGettysburg CollegeHaverford CollegeLafayette Collegeof PennsylvaniaUniversity of the SciencesVillanova University Rosemont CollegeSwarthmore CollegeSaint Josephs University Swarthmore College'