How is the English program at Cornell?

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<p>how is it ranked?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>It's totally top notch...very good in creative writing and poetry as well as literary criticism...</p>

<p>there has always been two camps inside of the dept...the modernist literary theory camp and the traditional, more literal interpretation camp...</p>

<p>Here's an excellent history of the department (see page 6-8)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.arts.cornell.edu/newsletter/A%26S_NEWSLETTER_spring2005.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.arts.cornell.edu/newsletter/A%26S_NEWSLETTER_spring2005.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Considered top 5. Cornell essentially built the house that is literary criticism. The creative writing program is under the umbrella of the graduate program which makes it very strong.</p>

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<p>Based on most recent reported survey of heads of English departments, conducted by USNWR, here are English department rankings. These are for graduate programs, but certainly translate reasonably well to undergraduate quality and reputation:</p>

<p>ENGLISH</p>

<p>Rank/School Average reputation</p>

<p>score</p>

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<li><p>University of California at Berkeley 4.90 </p></li>
<li><p>Yale University 4.80 </p></li>
<li><p>Cornell University (N.Y.) 4.70 </p></li>
<li><p>Harvard University 4.70 </p></li>
<li><p>Stanford University 4.70 </p></li>
<li><p>University of Chicago 4.70 </p></li>
<li><p>Duke University (N.C.) 4.60 </p></li>
<li><p>Princeton University 4.60 </p></li>
<li><p>Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 4.50 </p></li>
<li><p>University of Pennsylvania 4.50 </p>

<ol>
<li>Columbia University (N.Y.) 4.40 </li>
<li>University of Virginia 4.40 </li>
<li>Brown University (R.I.) 4.20 </li>
<li>University of California at Los Angeles 4.20 </li>
<li>University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 4.20 </li>
<li>Indiana University at Bloomington 4.00 </li>
<li>Rutgers University at New Brunswick (N.J.) 3.90 </li>
<li>University of California at Irvine 3.90 </li>
<li>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3.90 </li>
<li>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3.90 </li>
<li>University of Texas at Austin 3.90 </li>
<li>University of Wisconsin at Madison 3.90 </li>
<li>Northwestern University (Ill.) 3.70 </li>
<li>CUNY -- Graduate School 3.60 </li>
<li>University of Iowa 3.60 </li>
<li>University of Washington 3.60</li>
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