<p>Aside from the presumable harvard, etc. what are some schools that offer good American Studies programs?</p>
<p>it seems hard to find rankings for that program specifically.</p>
<p>American Studies is a finnicky major that not all schools offer, not even all top ones (mine doesn't, sadly).</p>
<p>However, many schools do have a create-your-own major option (mine does!) in which you could combine history, literature, sociology, econ, etc. and write a capstone paper.</p>
<p>If you check out Rugg's Recommendations, a college book, they will probably have listings for American Studies. Rugg's is not ranked; it's sorted alphabetically by relative selectivity, so you'll get a sense of the non-obvious options.</p>
<p>anyone have any other ideas?</p>
<p>(thanks though for yours unalove, i'll look into that)</p>
<p>If you're patient, the new NRC ranking will be out early next year. Supposedly it will include American Studies. </p>
<p>A quick google search yields UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, GWU, Yale, Colby, Kansas, Franklin & Marshall, UT Austin, American, Wesleyan, Cornell, UCSC, Penn State, Hamilton, UCD, Brandeis, UC Berkeley, Rutgers...probably a lot more. </p>
<p>If you're not sure how to evaluate the strength of programs, take this</a> good advice.</p>
<p>vanderbilt</p>
<p>Gourman Report Undergraduate Ranking American Studies</p>
<p>Yale University
Pennsylvania, University of.
Michigan -- Ann Arbor, University of.
Case Western Reserve University.
Iowa, University of.
Maryland -- College Park, University of.
Minnesota, University of.
Brown University.
Kansas, University of.
North Carolina -- Chapel Hill, University of.
Cornell University.
Brandeis University.
Texas -- Austin, University of.
George Washington University
Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges.
Chicago, University of.
Massachusetts -- Amherst, University of
New York University
Notre Dame, University of.
Michigan State University
New Mexico, University of
St. Louis University
Stanford University
State University of New York College at Buffalo.
Northwestern University
Tulane University
Williams College.
Miami, University of
Hawaii – Manoa, University of
Purdue University -- West Lafayette
Florida State University
Smith College
Pennsylvania State University -- University Park</p>
<p>Ruggs American studies</p>
<p>American University -- DC
Amherst -- Massachusetts.
Buffalo SUNY -- New York.
California -- San Diego, University of.
Franklin and Marshall -- Pennsylvania.
George Washington -- DC.
Georgetown -- DC.
Harvard -- Massachusetts.
Kalamazoo -- Michigan.
Michigan, University oh.
North Carolina, University of.
Northwestern -- Illinois.
Pennsylvania, University of.
Pomona -- California.
Sarah Lawrence -- New York.
Smith -- Massachusetts.
St. Olaf -- Minnesota.
South, University of -- Tennessee.
Stanford -- California.
Tulane -- Louisiana.
Virginia, University of.
Wake forest -- North Carolina.
Wesleyan -- Connecticut.
William and Mary -- Virginia.
Williams -- Massachusetts.
Yale -- Connecticut</p>
<p>I know Reed College in Portland does.</p>
<p>American Studies...interesting. I've never heard of anyone pursing this major. </p>
<p>Personally, we spent 10 years of our lives doing only 'American studies', and I was unbelievably happy to start learning about the world this year.</p>
<p>But good luck.</p>
<p>Yeah, American Studies is not a very common major at most colleges. (Incidentally, it was Katie Couric's major at UVA along with English.)</p>