<p>NYU is in NY. Cornell is a ivy school. Which school is better if I want to do art history? I want to work as curator or somthing to do with art/museum/gallery.</p>
<p>any other suggestions apart from these two?</p>
<p>Assuming you won’t change majors, and that cost differences are not an issue, probably NYU (for the department strength and location).</p>
<p>Williams College is supposed to be excellent for Art History.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>how about other universities? i prefer uni to college.</p>
<p>columbia is in nyc. columbia is an ivy school. problem solved.</p>
<p>Yes, Columbia has a highly rated art history department (at the graduate level anyway). It’s also extremely selective, of course.</p>
<p>Check this out for more ideas:
[Art</a> History Newsletter : NRC Rankings of Art-History Doctorate Programs](<a href=“arthistorynewsletter.com - arthistorynewsletter Resources and Information.”>arthistorynewsletter.com - arthistorynewsletter Resources and Information.)</p>
<p>From the lists of top-rated graduate programs, choose schools you like for other reasons and where you think you’d have a realistic shot at admissions. Penn, Chicago, and Johns Hopkins are excellent urban schools. The Baltimore Museum of Art is located on the edge of the JHU campus, with the fabulous Walters Gallery not too far away. The University of Chicago is maybe 20-30 minutes by public trans from the Art Institute of Chicago.</p>
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Columbia is good at both levels. Unlike at NYU, the same professors at Columbia teach both undergraduate and graduate students.</p>
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Being more specific would be helpful. If you want to work as a curator, you’ll need to acquire a PhD in art history and specialize in a particular subfield. Because even rather shoddy PhD programs in art history are absurdly selective these days (with MA programs headed that way), it helps to select an undergraduate program strong in your area of interest. The same, of course, holds true for other disciplines; Johns Hopkins is quite good for molecular biology but not at all ideal for a prospective marine biologist, for example.</p>
<p>To use an art history example, Dartmouth and Williams have perfectly good art history programs, but it would be questionable to choose them if your interest is Egyptian or Near Eastern art, particularly because they don’t offer the proper languages. No program offers every specialty, and if you plan to study a specialized area (e.g. South Asian art or Pre-Columbian art), it’s helpful to choose colleges with particular strength in that area. </p>
<p>That said, I wouldn’t focus overly much on colleges with good art history programs, as there’s a very good chance you’ll change your mind about what you want to do. Think about colleges from a broader perspective – do you want an urban or rural school? A small school or a very large one? What can you afford? Would you prefer warm or cool weather, and how do you feel about Greek life? All of these are factors that can and should play a role in college selection.</p>
<p>See this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1013380-art-history-major.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1013380-art-history-major.html</a></p>
<p>thank you!
How about Wellesley? Some say it is a good choice too but any specific details?
thx!</p>
<p>I’ve heard about Williams College being really good in Art History but I’m not too sure about that. </p>
<p>NYU is good too. According to some ranking (I can find out if you want), it has one of the best Art History departments. </p>
<p>If you can visit them, you should. Get a feel of whether their Art History department is what you want.</p>
<p>If you all don’t mind: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1062425-help-international-please-recommendations.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1062425-help-international-please-recommendations.html</a></p>
<p>yes, i would like to see the ranking. thx</p>
<p>Try Harvard for Renaissance art. I Tatti (former home of Bernard Berenson), in the hills outside Florence (Fiesole, to be exact) is a wonderful property and center, belonging to Harvard, for the study of the Renaissance.</p>