Some students come to study business or liberal arts or to attend the university's highly rated engineering school.

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Although it will start in the Fisher College of Business, IBM and OSU are developing curricula for engineering and arts and sciences.

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Morever, he provides some interesting anecdotes about science and engineering principles that were inspired from the arts world.

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This may provide some comfort to parents who have recently sent in deposits and are worrying about the futility of a liberal arts education versus more practical degrees in engineering, computer science or say, nursing.

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