<p>Hey all. I've seen threads similar to this in the past, but I can't find them...can anyone give a list of the best English/creative writing/etc. programs? Thanks!</p>
<p>bumpage....</p>
<p>Bard, Bennington, and Middlebury are awesome for English/creative writing programs. Midd has the Bread Loaf summer thing, and Bennington offers the Young Writers scholarship, but the deadline for this year passed. Those are three biggies anyway.</p>
<p>are undergrads allowed to take courses at bread loaf? haha i love that name</p>
<p>Of course. Middlebury is big on undergrads, personal attention and all that. They have lots of that stuff. Hey, I love English too, but really... there's not too much choice in the careers you can have if you major in that. I mean, if you don't want to be a teacher. There's journalism and plain writing (I'm working on publishing a few novels) but do you need a college education to teach you how to write? As far as I'm concerned, you're born with it. You either have IT or you don't, ya know? But anyway, I'll keep on the lookout for more colleges.</p>
<p>Middlebury is the best for english!</p>
<p>when i hear the word bread loaf school i laugh my but off! my friend cuzin wants to go to middlebury and she said her english teacher Took courses at breadloaf..it has the funniest name ever i laughed the second i found out that name!</p>
<p>Kenyon... known for its amazing English dept.</p>
<p>Vassar, Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard (for all but Post-modern, says a friend of mine who went there and got little direct support from the department), Princeton, Yale, UCR (the only UC with a pure creative writing major, and graduated poet laureate Billy Collins), UCI (has a great graduate creative writing program, supposedly the best, but I'm not sure about undergraduate). English, being the most universal of all majors in American colleges, has the great ability to be housed in decent departments all over the place. Try to narrow down what you like about universities, where you like the feel, the fit. Keeping in mind where strong departments are is good, but as this field is so universal, it won't be hard to find a great department at someplace that you enjoy.</p>
<p>For creative writing, none of the Ivies can get close to comparing to Bard. Generally speaking though, the non-writing English Department faculties all come out of the same programs, and who teaches where might be just as much a matter of who had an opening that year as anything else.</p>
<p>Most of the small, prestigious LACs are known for having pretty good English programs. Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence, Bard, etc....plus Brown and Barnard, off the top of my head.</p>
<p>English rankings from Gourman Report:
Yale
UC Berkeley
Harvard
U Chicago
Stanford
Cornell
Princeton
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
U Penn
UCLA
Brown
Indiana
U Michigan
UC Irvine
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Rutgers
UNC Chapel Hill
U Iowa
u Virginia
NYU
U Notre Dame
U Illinois
U Washington
Duke</p>
<p>LACs for English from Rugg's:
Allegheny
Bard
Barnard
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr
Carleton
Centre
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Colgate
Colorado C
Connecticut C
Davidson
Dickinson
Franklin&Marshall
Gettysburg
Grinnell
Hamilton
Haverford
Holy Cross
Kalamazoo
Kenyon
Knox
Lafayette
lawrence
Macalester
Middlebury
Mt Holyoke
Oberlin
Pomona
Reed
Rhodes
Sarah Lawrence
Smith
St Olaf
Swarthmore
Trinity (TX)
Vassar
Wake Forest
Washington &Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Wheaton
Whitman
Willamette
Williams</p>
<p>Creative writing from Rugg's:
Agnes Scott
U Alabama
Albertson
Bard
barnard
Beloit
Bennington
Brown
Carlow
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Creighton
Dana
Denison
Dominican
Eckerd
Emerson
Florida St
grinnell
Hamilton
Hobart
U Iowa
Johns Hopkins
Lewis Clark
Linfield
LIU Southhampton
Lycoming
Maine Farmington
U Michigan
SUNY New Paltz
NC St
Northwestern
Oberlin
u Oregon
U Pittsburgh
Redlands
St Andrews
San Fran St
Santa Fe
Sarah lawrence
Stephens
Susquehanna
Sweet Briar
temple
Virginia
Washington C (MD)
Webster
Wheaton
Wichita St
Wittenberg</p>
<p>U of Iowa has the nations best creative writing program, ranked number 1</p>
<p>Definitely check out the following:</p>
<p>Amherst College
Bard College
Bennington College
Brandeis University
Brown University
Caleton College
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Harvard University
Haverford College
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Princeton University
Reed College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Yale University</p>
<p>All of those colleges and universities have some of the best English departments to be found anywhere.</p>
<p>Collegehelp, did you mean to included U of Alabama Tuscaloosa or U of Alabama Birmingham?</p>
<p>Also, you likely meant to say Lewis and Clark College, the priviate school in Oregon, as opposed to the public college in Idaho?</p>
<p>LakeWashington-
That was Lewis and Clark State in Idaho.</p>
<p>Rugg's does not specify which U of Alabama. The US News ranking of grad programs in Creative Writing does not specify which U of Alabama either. Anybody know which U Alabama has a good creative writing program?</p>
<p>Collegehelp,
Lewis and Clark College in Oregon also has an excellent creative writing program, as well as a very strong English department. One of the limitations of Rugg's is they are not always accurate about the programs that are and are not offered at various schools, although Rugg's can be a good starting point for further research.</p>
<p>I do have a link that provides more information about creative writing programs and what to look for, but I'm not allowed to post it here. If anyone would like the link, please PM me.</p>