Best English Programs?

[BellaMarie]

<p>I know that any traditional top 50 school will have a good english department, but are there any top 50 schools that have particularily good ones? Ones with especially great professors, enironments, etc?</p>

[Ari7]

<p>Williams College</p>

[ElizaB]

<p>I’m sure there are more, but Yale, Williams, and JHU come to mind right off the bat.</p>

[poi]

<p>Kenyon and Middlebury.</p>

[RML]

<p>Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, NYU</p>

[portugueseninja]

<p>Princeton!</p>

[DavidB1990]

<p>honestly, there IS NO best english program, its not like engineering or business. Most colleges and universities hire very proficient people for their english departments. Any state school is equally as good as Yale and Harvard, and if you want to be an english teacher (not sure if you do) then it doesnt matter where you go in any casem bc u will end up working in an elementary or high school just like the harvard english grad.</p>

[heyalb]

<p>

Any state school is equally as good…

</p>

<p>OUCH.</p>

<p>And on a ‘best English program’ thread, no less.</p>

[45_Percenter]

<p>These rankings of graduate English programs provide a general idea of which departments are widely considered to be the best:</p>

<p>National Research Council (NRC)

1 Yale 4.77
2 Harvard 4.77
3 Cal Berkeley 4.77
4 Virginia 4.58
5 Stanford 4.55
6 Duke 4.55
7 Cornell 4.49
8 Penn 4.47
9 Columbia 4.47
10 Chicago 4.41
11 Johns Hopkins 4.33
12 UCLA 4.10
13 Princeton 4.05
14 Brown 3.99
15 Cal Irvine 3.95
16 Michigan 3.93
17 Rutgers 3.92
18 Indiana 3.78
19 CUNY 3.78
20 NYU 3.77

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<p>[NRC</a> Rankings in Each of 41 Areas](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html)</p>

<p>US News & World Report

1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
1 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
1 Yale University New Haven, CT Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
4 Princeton University Princeton, NJ Distance Enter your zip Score 4.8<br>
4 Stanford University Stanford, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.8<br>
6 Cornell University Ithaca, NY Distance Enter your zip Score 4.7<br>
6 University of Chicago Chicago, IL Distance Enter your zip Score 4.7<br>
8 Columbia University New York, NY Distance Enter your zip Score 4.6<br>
8 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Distance Enter your zip Score 4.6<br>
10 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.5<br>
10 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.5<br>
12 Duke University NA, NC Distance Enter your zip Score 4.4<br>
12 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Distance Enter your zip Score 4.4<br>
12 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.4<br>
15 Brown University Providence, RI Distance Enter your zip Score 4.3<br>
16 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Distance Enter your zip Score 4.1<br>
16 University of California–Irvine Irvine, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.1<br>
16 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI Distance Enter your zip Score 4.1<br>
19 Northwestern University Evanston, IL Distance Enter your zip Score 4.0<br>
19 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL Distance Enter your zip Score 4.0<br>
19 University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Distance Enter your zip Score 4.0<br>
19 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX Distance Enter your zip Score 4.0

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[BellaMarie]

<p>wow, thank you 45 percenter, that helps a lot.</p>

[Hope2getrice]

<p>the NRC is from 1993. doesn’t say much for now.</p>

<p>however, the USNews is probably more accurate.</p>

[DavidB1990]

<p>yea thats right heyalb, you know the best part, that you’re trying to correct someone on a forum. Oh, and guess what. I got an A in english last semester. LOL glad that “bad english” ****ed you off a little more than you thought. cheers!</p>

[Rutgers89]

<p>I don’t know how well ratings actually measure certain departments. I would just pick a school that fits you first and foremost, then look to see if it has a strong department in what you are looking for.</p>