<p>I prefer small student body. don't care about public or private or other stuffs. Just schools with excellent philosophy major.</p>
<p>What is your financial situation? What state do you live in? What is your goal after college (grad school? law school? something else?)</p>
<p>My family can support me, so i don’t need scholarship. i am an international student from china, hoping to work several years before going to grad school.</p>
<p>There are quite a few colleges/uni’s at a variety of selectivity where you can get a good Philosophy education. What sort of info can you give so that readers can suggest match colleges for admissions. GPA, SAT etc.</p>
<p>Good reading here:
High school students interested in philosophy would do best to identify schools that have strong reputations for undergraduate education first. Only then, should they look in to the quality of the philosophy department. Some ranked PhD programs have good reputations for undergraduate education, like Princeton, Yale, Brown and Rice, among many others. The larger universities (like Harvard or Michigan or Texas) tend to offer a more mixed undergraduate experience, largely due to their size. Since much of the teaching at those institutions will be done by graduate students, it pays to go to a school with a strong PhD program, since that will affect the intellectual caliber of teachers you will encounter.</p>
<p>Among schools that do not offer the PhD or MA in philosophy, those with the best philosophy faculties would probably include: Amherst College, California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Reed College, University of Vermont, Western Washington University, and Wellesley College. The colleges in the Claremont system (Claremont-McKenna, Pomona etc.) have, collectively, excellent faculty resources for philosophy students as well. Needless to say, many other good liberal arts colleges and universities that only offer a B.A. have strong philosophy faculties (i.e., faculties doing philosophical work at the research university level) and offer good undergraduate programs
[The</a> Philosophical Gourmet Report 2011 :: Undergraduate Study](<a href=“http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/undergrad.asp]The”>http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/undergrad.asp)</p>
<p>A few elements in the above report seem quite odd: I wouldn’t go to CalTech for philosophy! CalTech is primarily a school that prepares scientific researchers. A future engineers who wants to take a few philosophy classes, sure. But CalTech’s goal is to train engineers who will work in research and its strong depts are all science-related.
I’m a bit dubious about Western Washington. It’s a decent school, but it’s still a long way away from a top school (University or LAC).
I agree that if you go to a large research university, choose carefully since your first classes will be taught by TAs. Although a high-level grad student doesn’t necessarily make a good teacher, being a non-elite grad student doesn’t make one a good teacher either.</p>
<p>OP: What are your stats (class rank, grades, SAT/ACT)?
Assuming that your stats are very strong and that you want a smaller sized school, start by looking at the Top 25-30 LACs. Go to each website and check out the philosophy dept.'s faculty, their research interests, etc. Also look at Uchicago, Rice and Tufts.</p>
<p>Maybe take a look at Tufts? I love Daniel Dennett’s books. He’s a philosophy professor there.</p>
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Does this actually happen? It’s been my experience that professors teach the class and if there’s a discussion section the TA might lead it. </p>
<p>OP, if you are looking for colleges, make sure to choose one where the students can keep up with you intellectually. This is important for philosophy courses since a good professor will force students to read extremely dense papers, discuss them with their peers utilizing various approaches, and then write sometimes very long papers on a certain topic. Also keep in mind that there’s an extreme oversupply of philosophy phDs. I served as one of the student representatives on a hiring committee for a tenure track philosophy professor at my rural LAC. After first running an ad indicating a need for a philosophy professor more than 200 people applied, many with phDs from extremely prestigious universities. Though a number were excellent, we ended up choosing just one leaving more than 199 highly credentialed people looking for a job. Because of this staggering imbalance in phDs to number of jobs, even some truly obscure (and rightfully so!) schools often have incredible faculty.</p>