<p>A few years ago, Indiana University at Bloomington was ranked as the single top school for French language courses in the US.</p>
<p>As you can see, the Italian language department is connected to the French one, so I would think that you should have very good professors in these courses.</p>
<p>P.S. The US Military actually uses IU-B professors (and only IU-B professors and ones from the military academies) to teach all of its top military leaders going to Afghanistan the two major languages used in the region. IU-B was picked for this task because of its extremely high ranking in foreign language instruction.</p>