<p>What are some colleges that have good undergrad. creative writing programs?</p>
<p>I know Iowa is tops for that.</p>
<p>Creative writing programs from Rugg's Recommendations:
Agnes Scott
U Alabama
Bard
Middlebury
Beloit
Barnard
Bennington
Brown
Carlow
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Creighton
Dana
Denison
Dominican
Eckerd
Emerson
Fla St
Grinnell
Hamilton
Hobart
U Iowa
John's Hopkins
Kenyon
Lewis-Clark State (ID)
Linfield
Long Island U Southhampton
Lycoming
U Maine Farmington
U of Michigan
SUNY New Paltz
NC State
Northwestern
Oberlin
U Oregon
U Pitt
Redlands
St Andrews (NC)
San Fran St
C of Santa Fe
Sarah Lawrence
Stephens
Susquehanna
Sweet Briar
Temple
UVA
Washington Coll (MD)
Webster
Wheaton (MA)
Wichita State
Wittenberg</p>
<p>US News graduate creative writing programs:
1. University of Iowa 4.5
2. John Hopkins University (MD) 4.2
3. University of Houston (TX) 4.2
4. Columbia University (NY) 4.1
5. University of Virginia 4.1
6. New York University 4.0
7. University of California, Irvine (CA) 4.0
8. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI) 4.0
9. University of Arizona 3.9
10. Boston University 3.8
11. Cornell University 3.8
12. University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA) 3.8
13. University of Montana (MT) 3.8
14. University of Washington 3.8
15. Washington University (MO) 3.8
16. Brown University (RI) 3.7
17. Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) 3.7
18. University of Arkansas (AR) 3.7
19. University of Utah 3.7
20. Arizona State University 3.6
21. Emerson College (MA) 3.6
22. George Mason University (VA) 3.6
23. Hollins College (VA) 3.6
24. Sarah Lawrence College (NY) 3.6
25. Syracuse University (NY) 3.6</p>
<p>I was going to say Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>Bard College, (EXTRAORDINARY PROGRAM.)
UIowa, (ditto.)
Emerson College.
Middlebury College</p>
<p>Wesleyan's got a pretty good one--not in the same league, but certainly a stand-out prog.</p>
<p>Princeton also has a very good creative writing program. My classmates who take CW courses are always speaking well of it.</p>
<p>Iowa's famous for its graduate workshop, which has turned out the likes of Tim O'Brien and many many many many many others. I believe these graduates teach ugrad, but I don't know how much the program trickles down to ug.</p>
<p>Kenyon, Hopkins, Bard, and Emerson were schools that kept on coming up again and again when I was looking into a creative writing major.</p>
<p>As has been repeated endlessly on these boards, you don't choose an undergraduate program on the basis of an institution's graduate program. The Writers Workshop at Iowa is highly prestigious, but it has NO overlap with undergraduate courses. Iowa is not a good place to study creative writing as an undergraduate.</p>
<p>If you like small liberal arts schools, i was really surprised by how great the creative writing program is at conn college. they really know what they're doing.</p>
<p>thank you, everyone</p>
<p>One thing I would suggest as you look at schools: Be sure to ask how difficult it is for freshman to get into creative writing classes. At some schools, including those often mentioned here as "the best for creative writing," it can be tricky to get into creative writing courses as a freshman (and, in some cases, even as sophomores) because they are so popular. Also be sure to ask if there are any requirements for getting into creative writing classes - at some schools you have to show writing samples and be "approved" by the teacher.</p>