3-2 students get a BA from their home institution, often a liberal arts college or university, and BS in engineering from a partner school.
3-2 students get the technical training at the partner school as well as a myriad of quintessential liberal arts courses at their home institution.
Students complete general education requirements for the home institution and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) courses for transferring to the partner school.
Since students are intended to stay for three years, they do not receive a degree from the home institution, usually a BA, until graduating from the partner school.
Their major purpose has been to add a combined liberal arts/engineering dimension to higher education rather than to contribute to the central flow of undergraduate engineering manpower.".
[1] Whereas a more recent 1987 article states, "Such students represent an aberration in a liberal arts environment, and from the engineering side they have been more tolerated than encouraged".