Lafayette is uniquely positioned in its standing among America's leading small colleges for its strictly undergraduate focus that offers the best in liberal arts programs, and engineering. Lafayette's approach to teaching and learning goes well beyond traditional classroom methods. Through active-learning experiences in small-group seminars, student-centered team projects, independent study, and student-faculty research, students have the opportunity to cross academic boundaries in the liberal arts and engineering. With total assets well in excess of $1 billion, Lafayette is an independent, coeducational, residential, undergraduate institution with a faculty of distinction. The College devotes its substantial academic and financial resources to the education of its select group of undergraduate students.