<p>Does anyone know of the top art history schools in the US? Preferably in the Northeast or California, but it really doesn't matter. All I know of are Columbia and NYU.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins, Smith, Brown</p>
<p>Declared History of Art Major at Johns Hopkins here, the program here is fantastic, very small, extremely good interactions with faculty and staff.</p>
<p>For instance, I was just only a freshman and I asked a Professor for advise on how to improve class note taking by integrating a current system that they already have in place and about her digital slide imaging presentation software with more advanced note taking measures.</p>
<p>She was very supportive for instance about helping me get a $3000 tech fellows grant to put this system into place. I was just a freshman and she barely knew me and she got all these directors and tech support guys to help out, I was impressed.</p>
<p>Took art history courses at Harvard, they were good as well. JHU has Walters Art Musuem on the Peabody Institute campus and the Baltimore Musuem of Art on the Home wood campus. I recently applied for a job as a research assistant to help the curator/director of the african arts musuem department catalogue a database of potential procurements for the BMA.</p>
<p>Ugh, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Williams, Harvard (very good professors) are the big ones...</p>
<p>Thanks for your answers! I'll definitely consider the ones mentioned. Anyone know of universities that are slightly easier to get into than the aforementioned?</p>
<p>Not off the top of my head. I don't know for sure but I think the better AH programs are at the better (thats a relative term, I know) schools.........</p>
<p>Williams has an excellent program</p>
<p>UCLA ---expecially when you consider its proximity and close relationships to the Getty, MOCA, LACMA, its association with the Armand Hammer, Norton Simon, the Huntington et al.
Oh yah and yours truly got her Masters in Art History there. ;)</p>
<p>Here's the top 15 from NRC:</p>
<p>1 NYU 4.79
2 Columbia 4.79
3 Cal Berkeley 4.67
4 Harvard 4.49
5 Yale 4.44
6 Princeton 4.04
7 Johns Hopkins 3.93
8 Northwestern 3.83
9 Penn 3.80
10 Chicago 3.74
11 Michigan 3.71
12 CUNY 3.60
13 UCLA 3.52
14 Stanford 3.49
15 Delaware 3.40</p>
<p>Belle, Many large and medium sized universities have good art history departments. Like history or English or Biology, Art History is a mainstay of a liberal arts education so it's fairly easy to find a reasonably strong department. </p>
<p>In the large publics I'd look at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Virginia. All of the Ivy League, except maybe Dartmouth. For medium privates, JHU, CMU, NYU, Chicago, Stanford.</p>
<p>In the small liberal arts college category, Williams is outstanding. Also very good are Oberlin, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Kenyon, Skidmore, Conn College. Bryn Mawr and Smith if you are female.</p>
<p>You should take a look at the on-line course catelogue to see if the course selection appeals to you. Also check the specialities of the professors. Colleges that have teaching museums on campus are especially note worthy as are those with aggressive internship programs.</p>
<p>For LACs I'd suggest Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Williams, and Wesleyan.</p>
<p>thanks all for your responses! I am aware that usually better art history programs are at the better colleges, but I really need some safeties!</p>
<p>musicamusica, what were your experiences at UCLA? I do live in CA, and I'm definitely applying, but it's a bit of a reach school for me.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if there are any good art museums around Berkeley? Thanks!</p>
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<p>The museums, especially art ones, at Berkeley are amazing.</p>
<p>Berkeley</a> Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley</a> Natural History Museums
Phoebe</a> A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology</p>
<p>The libraries, as well, have great art collections, like the East Asian Studies library.</p>
<p>Wellesley has an excellent art history department. (Despite the lying BS in that stupid Julia Roberts movie, it was actually either the first or one of the first departments to offer a course in modern art...in the 1920s.)</p>
<p>Belle--I will pm you on my experience.</p>
<p>Thanks all for your responses! Consolation (or anyone else), do you know the average sat score for wellesley students? did you go there?</p>
<p>From the 2007/8 Common Data Set on the Wellesley site:</p>
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<p>SAT Critical Reading 660 750
SAT Math 640 730
SAT Writing 660 730</p>
<p>thanks erin's dad!</p>