AMERICA'S SCIENCE TEST

Smaller Is Not Always Better

By LILA GUTERMAN

One of the received notions about undergraduate research is that the quality of the experience is better at small liberal-arts colleges than it is at larger research universities. At small col­­leges, the theory goes, undergraduates benefit from having more attention from faculty members since the students need not vie with graduate...

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