<p>Best schools for Art History?</p>
<p>The best: Williams</p>
<p>LACs:
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr
Hamilton
Kenyon
Oberlin
Skidmore
Smith
Swarthmore
Vassar
Wesleyan</p>
<p>Universities:
Boston U
Columbia
Harvard
Indiana U Bloomington
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
NYU
Princeton
Stanford
U Chicago
U Chicago
U Michigan
U Penn
U Pittsburg
U Rochester
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UNC Chapel Hill
UVA
WUStL
Yale</p>
<p>I have a friend who's an Art History major at Swarthmore and loves it.</p>
<p>I posted on the arts board, but will repeat for general interest.</p>
<p>Williams has one of the top art history departments in the country. They have three world class museums on or near campus on which they draw heavily for hands-on experience. </p>
<p>Williams graduates are curators and directors of many of Americas top museums currently MoMA, Guggenheim, National Gallery, LACounty plus many others in varying positions to the extent that they are referred to as the Williams Mafia. This group provides a vibrant network for internships and arts related opportunities. </p>
<p>The studio art department is also very strong which provides a dynamic adjunct. Williams has a small Masters program which offers advanced opportunities for curatorial and conservation studies that the undergrads can draw on.</p>
<p>Other liberal arts colleges that have good art history departments are: Skidmore, Wesleyan, Conn College, Kenyon, Hamilton, Vassar. If you are female Bryn Mawr and Smith are excellent. Among the ivies and super-selectives, Id suggest Brown, Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Stanford. </p>
<p>Most large universities have decent art history programs. NYU, Berkeley, UMich and JHU come to mind but Im sure there are others.</p>
<p>An art history professor at Berkeley was recently awarded a Mellon grant.</p>
<p><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/21278.html%5B/url%5D">http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/21278.html</a> Personally, I'd call it more than "decent," and put it up to "good."</p>