<p>Long story short, currently a Business undergrad who truly, truly does not enjoy what he does. The prospect of a career in finance or accounting is basically a Stephen King novel for me. I'm therefore looking at transfer prospects to an English/Writing/Lit. program at another school. </p>
<p>I'm wondering which colleges are known to offer the best English programs in terms of not only education, but also connections, reputation and god forbids job prospects?</p>
<p>Connections and reputation? Go Ivy, mate! ;)</p>
<p>University: Yale, Berkeley and Harvard</p>
<p>LC: Williams, Amherst</p>
<p>lol, are there any parameters for your search at all?</p>
<p>Mostly being able to find a good paying position after completing the degree. The frightful tale of the struggling writer/janitor is too awful to bare.</p>
<p>This involves connections that can be established during the program and reputation in the writing world.</p>
<p>Also, sidebar: If you're hoping to get admitted into an English program, is more attention payed to your essays and less to your academics? (Or something similar)</p>
<p>Yale, Williams and Wellesley</p>
<p>Barnard for creative writing if you are female. NY Times article to that effect this year.</p>
<p>Princeton has an awesome creative writing dept.</p>
<p>A little less selective, Kenyon and Oberlin are supposed to be good.</p>
<p>Middlebury has a great English department - not sure about creative writing in particular.</p>
<p>All outstanding choices and recommendations. I would add Kenyon College in Ohio. I would add Hollins if you are female. And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I would add Fordham. Fordham's English department is extraordinary at both the Lincoln Center and Bronx Rose Hill Campus. Its faculty is over 70% Ivy credentialed....as in PhD credentials. They are extremely rigorous. But they are also extremely well connected. 8 people from Fordham last year won prestigious Fulbright Scholarships. They have also won Rhodes and Truman Scholarships in the past. Its a great school (with also a very highly respected business school as well.) </p>
<p>Here is what I recommend to you: Dont ditch your finance/accounting major. Keep it. But add a DOUBLE major in Creative Writing or English. That way you are covered for a career but you meet your inner personal needs as well...and avoid criticisms. Then when you graduate look for jobs in the publishing industry in Manhattan....and Fordham has SUPERB contacts in Manhattan. You can write and do work in an industry you love.</p>
<p>Make sense to you?</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>princeton is great for english... toni morrison is/was(?) a creative writing professor there!</p>