<p>There's only so much you can learn online. Does anyone have experience (or know someone with experience, or have a best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend with experience) with any of these Russian programs/departments:</p>
<p>Davidson
Duke
Georgia Tech
William & Mary</p>
<p>I know Georgetown, Dickinson and Bryn Mawr have excellent Russian programs, but beyond that, I can't seem to get much scoop on other programs. Thanks for any help!!</p>
<p>Or any other Russian programs? ;)</p>
<p>Duke has one of the National Resource Centers in Russian & East European Studies:
Duke University: Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies</p>
<p>The others are:
Georgetown University: Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies
Harvard University: Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Indiana University-Bloomington: Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
Indiana University-Bloomington: Russian and East European Institute
Ohio State University: Center for Slavic and East European Studies
Stanford University: Center of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of California-Berkeley: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of Chicago: Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Kansas: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
University of Pittsburgh: Center for Russian and East European Studies
University of Washington: Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia</p>
<p>The following schools have Russian Language Flagship programs (<a href=“http://www.thelanguageflagship.org/index.php):%5B/url%5D”>http://www.thelanguageflagship.org/index.php):</a>
Bryn Mawr College
Portland State University
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>I’ve also heard positive things about the Russian programs at Middlebury, Carleton, and Toronto.</p>
<p>Middlebury is very good for languages in general; I’m told William and Mary isn’t as good for languages (my French an German teachers each encouraged me NOT to apply).</p>
<p>RLI (Bryn Mawr) is pretty good, but all instructors are grad students, no professors teach that program, if it makes a difference to you… It does matter to some people.</p>
<p>Columbia and Harvard are far and away the best Russian Studies programs in the US. </p>
<p>The shortlist of other top programs would include:</p>
<p>Indiana
Stanford
Michigan
Berkeley
Princeton
Duke</p>
<p>As for other programs, I’d prefer those located in cities that have a large number of Russian immigrants/emigres and a cultural orientation toward Eastern Europe: these are usually in the northeastern US ie from Pittsburgh eastward. You’ll likely have more interaction with actual Russians in those places than you would in Virginia, Kansas, Oregon etc.</p>