According to the Princeton Review’s Best 379 Colleges (2012 edition), “Great Schools for English Literature and Language Majors”:
- Amherst College
- Auburn University
- Bard College (NY)
- Barnard College
- Bennington College
- Boston College
- Brown University
- CUNY-Hunter College
- Claremont McKenna College
- Clemson University
- Colby College
- Colgate University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Denison University
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Eugene Lang College-The New School for Liberal Arts
- Fordham University
- George Mason University
- Gettysburg College
- Harvard College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kenyon College
- Pitzer college
- Pomona College
- Princeton University
- Rice University
- Stanford University
- Syracuse University
- Tufts University
- UC Berkeley
- The University of Chicago
- UM Ann Arbor
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Utah
- Vassar College
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wellesley College
- Yale University