The ‘hard’ sciences (the ones where replication and validation of actual experiments occurs and is required to be accepted as actual ‘science’) almost always requires special facilities for those experiments to take place.

One can philosophize and think about all kinds of things at a university without a physical bricks and mortar place; chemistry, physics, DNA and other biological studies kinda need something more.

Reed College has its own nuclear reactor, for example. That’s where you go to study that subject because of that facility. You can do computer ‘modeling’ on lots of things; actual touch-it-in-real-time experiments can then verify (or disprove) your computer’s guesses.