<p>Our D was accepted into UCI CHP, UCSB Regents, and UCLA. Does anyone know how the undergrad English depts stack up? We don't know where to find this information.</p>
<p>I am an English major and although not an expert, I’ve done a fair share of research. UCLA is the only school out of your options which has a notable English dept.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks, SHF. That gives some direction.</p>
<p>Sorry, SeeHerFly. I don’t think that’s even remotely true. UCI has one of the best School of Humanities in the UC system, arguably behind only Berkeley. Just take a look at the rankings of some of its graduate programs.</p>
<p>For example, the creative writing MFA program here usually gets around ~550 applicants for about 12 spots. </p>
<p>Derrida (the guy that essentially founded deconstructionism, a methodology for analyzing literature that nearly every English department on Earth has adopted) was a prof at UCI a few years back. Likewise, the ultra famous postmodernist Lyotard was a professor here in the late-nineties. J. Hillis Miller, one of the most famous live deconstructionists, is currently a professor here. This is just to name a few; there are many others.</p>
<p>Anyway, my point is that the department here at UCI is pretty solid. (Google “school of humanities”, btw. Look at the first result. 
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<p>while all of that is true, the OP was asking how the undergrad programs compare. I guess it was unfair of me to say that UCLA is the ONLY notable school, but I guarantee that an Engl degree from UCLA will open more doors than an equivalent from UCI.</p>
<p>How would UCLA open more doors?</p>
<p>I can’t compare the three for you but there is a UCLA professor in the theatre dept. who is very public about the fact that his daughter is studying creative writing at UCI because they have a stronger program than the one at UCLA. Just one opinion but coming from an interesting source.</p>