<p>Hey all. I've applied to some colleges already that I know have solid English depts. I'm looking for the best places in the country to study English/Creative Writing/Journalism/British Lit/etc. Where should I look? Thanks.</p>
<p>How about Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio?</p>
<p>also U Iowa and Middlebury
U Arizona
Bard
Bennington
Brown
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
UC Irvine
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
U Conn
Cornell U
Denison
U Denver
Emerson
U Fla
George Mason
Goddard
Grinnell
Hamilton
Johns Hopkins
Kenyon
Mt Holyoke
NYU
NC State
Northwestern
Oberlin
U Oregon
U Pittsburgh
Pomona
U Redlands
Roger Williams
Santa Clara U
Smith
Trinity (MA)
Tufts
Warren Wilson
Washington C (MD)
Washington U St Louis
Wittenberg</p>
<p>Emerson College in Boston has an amazing writing program. Their program is called "writing, literature & publishing" (wlp).</p>
<p>Thanks for the list. Can anyone rank the UC schools for English (vs. each other and on a national level?) Thanks.</p>
<p>I haven't seen any undergrad rankings, but Berkeley's English department is #1 in the country (tied with Harvard I think) for grad. I imagine the rest of the UC's have pretty good English departments as well. Most good schools are going to have a good English department.</p>
<p>GentlemanandScholar is correct. UCLA is considered next best in the system in available rankings, although they are considered better in certain areas of criticism. They're all quite fine, really.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley = #1
UCLA = #2.</p>
<p>UCI has one of the most highly selective and prestigious GRADUATE creative writing programs in the country. Check out their profs. I'm not sure how that translates to the undergrad level, but I would bet that it filters down quite a bit.</p>
<p>My daughter is also thinking along the English/Creative Writing lines. From an overall perspective, her favorite schools are Brown, Pomona, Williams, Wash-U, Grinnell, and Emory. She's got a pretty fair idea about the traditional English programs at all of these schools, including a very general perspective of how they compare to each other.</p>
<p>However, she has much less of a feel for the relative strengths of their creative writing offerings (it won't be THE factor in deciding between schools, but will likely be A factor). Does anyone with a good feel for the creative writing programs at Brown, Pomona, Williams, Wash-U, Grinnell, or Emory?</p>
<p>Thank you for your responses.</p>
<p>unc chap, columbia, vanderbilt</p>
<p>Williams has a strong English department with some 40 courses offered every term plus a dozen more in Comparative Literature. Several of these are tutorials: two students plus one professor. The course selection covers a diverse and appealing range of eras and themes. There are several acclaimed professional writers on the faculty including Lawrence Raab in poetry and Jim Shepard, Karen Shepard and Andrea Barrett in fiction. There are frequent campus readings and seminars with writers of all sorts. If they elect to pursue the honors program students can write a creative or critical thesis in their senior year.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. I'll look at the new schools you posted. I knew UCb and UCLA would be the No. 1 and No. 2 in the UC system for English...can anyone give me any info about the dept at UC Davis? Thanks.</p>
<p>Oberlin has one of the strongest (and oldest) undergraduate creative writing programs in the country, as well as one of the best English departments among LACs.</p>
<p>If you're looking for journalism as a possibility, you have to keep that in mind. Most "good" schools will have fine English departments- the subject is very traditional and established. Journalism just isn't as common as English. The same is so with creative writing, which we seem to be focusing on now.</p>
<p>If you want to write screen plays check out Pratt Institute, if you can believe it. They actually have a good creative writing major for screen plays despite being known as an art school.</p>
<p>I 2nd Kenyon, it is extremely strong in this.</p>
<p>Thanks to taxguy & silverpebble for mentioning Pratt & reiterating Kenyon, for writing.</p>
<p>It can be a challenge to locate a school which is equally strong in both the literary analysis component & the creative writing component. Most tend to be stronger in one or the other.</p>
<p>Dude, </p>
<p>Brown's creative writing dept was very good when I was there--late 70's/early 80's. Brown grads from that era have had very distinguished careers as novelists-- Jeff Eugenides, Rick Moody. Playwrights at Brown benefit from the Trinity Repetory venue. I was an English Lit concentrator; the professors in the English Dept were/are extremely strong. Though I did not study creative writing per se at Brown, I did wind up working as a screenwriter for about a decade. </p>
<p>If you go into the "honors" track (which requires a thesis) you get priority placement in Honors seminars (all <20 students.) Many of the legendary profs teach the honors seminars and the most gung-ho students take them. Lots of fun. Even in the non-honors track/survey type classes Brown had incredible professors. One of mine from my freshman year would typically write 2-3 paragraphs of comments on a 2 page paper... this with a class of 100 or so kids. She was the one who urged me to do an honors concentration.</p>
<p>At Brown a writer is in great hands and great company.</p>
<p>A while ago there was someone on CC who was a writer of some sort who had investigated "good" creative writing programs. I compiled this list from her posts, and those of others around that time:</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence, Middlebury, Hamilton, Kenyon, Pomona, Bard, U Iowa, Grinnell, Oberlin, Northwestern, Trinity (CT), Bennington, Amherst, Williams, Vassar, Reed, Princeton, Stanford, NYU, Tufts, Cornell
U Redlands, U Denver, Johns Hopkins, Denison, Emerson, U Oregon, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, SF State
Beloit, U Pittsburgh, SUNY New Paltz, Knox (Il)</p>