<p>Anyone know of a site that has comparative information regarding the top Classics departments in the country? I'm thinking of this in terms of someone whose ambition might be to become, say, the next Donald Kagan.</p>
<p>Wally Englert is one of the most beloved profs at Reed where the curriculum is grounded by a common freshman core humanities class
<a href="http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/nov2002/features/humanities/2.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/nov2002/features/humanities/2.html</a>
Other colleges with strong classics depts are Uchicago & st Johns
many schools with great books focus also have good classics depts
<a href="http://www.nas.org/reports/gt_bks/gb_programs.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.nas.org/reports/gt_bks/gb_programs.htm</a></p>
<p>Brown, Yale (Kagan et al.) and Bryn Mawr are very well-known. No idea whether the reality follows the reputation.</p>
<p>Hopkins claims to have an outstanding classics program.</p>
<p>University of Texas at Austin was wonderful department with outstanding faculty in my day. I don't keep up anymore, but I know they have a good Classics website.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies. Did anyone see this news item last week? Sounds like several decades worth of work for classics majors! <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus.html%5B/url%5D">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus.html</a></p>
<p>Wellesley seems to have a pretty strong program, and I've heard very good things about NYU's department as well.</p>
<p>Tufts, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Some suggestions from Rugg's, including a few less selective schools:
Duke, UCBerkeley, Centre, Holy Cross, Kenyon, Middlebury, Oberlin, U of Pittsburgh, Duquesne, Fordham, Beloit, College of Wooster, Whitman, U of Wisconsin, Swarthmore, U of Michigan.</p>
<p>Add BU to the list - substantial scholarships for classics majors based on annual exams (Latin and ancient Greek). Holy Cross also offers scholarships to classics students, though I do not know what they use as criteria. Amherst may as well, though I am not positive.</p>
<p>I have to put in a plug for the Classics Professors at Georgetown - they are awesome.</p>
<p>The current classics profs at Colgate are amazing. However, out of the ones actually teaching at Colgate, only one has tenure, and only one more is tenure-track, so it may be short-lived awesomeness.</p>
<p>U.C Berkeley has an outstanding (rated second in the nation, 1st is Harvard) classics department with wonderful professors and an exceptional breadth of curriculm. Go Bears!!</p>
<p>socal--who did this rating of classics depts?</p>
<p>probably the National Research COuncil but it is undergrad or graduate ranking?
<a href="http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankgen.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankgen.htm</a></p>