Lafayette College is a private liberal arts institution located in Easton, Pennsylvania. Established in 1826, it is a prestigious small liberal arts school that combines a close learning environment with the feeling of high school students. In an environment that promotes the free exchange of ideas, the college seeks to cultivate the ideas of inquirers and integrate knowledge, social and personal growth. The college is committed to developing pupil’s critical thinking, verbal communication as well as quantitative reasoning skills and their ability to make innovative efforts. Lafayette institution offers degrees in more than 50 fields including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and engineering. Lafayette is one of the few universities that offer degrees in specific disciplines of engineering and humanities. Although engineering has unified first-year teaching to allow students to choose a major, there are six majors in different engineering fields.