<p>A friend is looking for colleges with:</p>
<p>o Good program in Japanese
o Northeast/New England (possibly mid-west)
o Smaller than typical Flagship
o Lots of individual attention </p>
<p>Ideas?</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Middlebury, of course. But often the best programs and better established are on the west coast; but for undergrad it doesn't matter as much. The most important thing is finding a school where your friend can study at least a yr in Japan during college.</p>
<p>If the midwest is acceptable you should check out Earlham. It has an excellent Japanese program and it's a small liberal arts college that provides lots of individual attention!</p>
<p>If you're considering the midwest, and don't mind a noxious dose of liberalism, Oberlin would be worthwhile. Japanese is one of their strongest areas from what I've read.</p>
<p>Also in the midwest: Macalester<br>
Lawrence </p>
<p>Others listed as having a Japanese major (in the NE and smallish):</p>
<p>Bard
Bennington
Colgate
Conn College
Dartmouth
Gettysburg
Hamilton
Trinity
Tufts
Vassar
Wellesley
Williams</p>
<p>There are a lot of people studying Japanese here at Bennington, and going abroad is very easy, the school is certainly small, and gives a lot of individual attention!</p>
<p>The first school that came to my mind was Middlebury College.</p>
<p>Thank you all so very very much!</p>
<p>Though it's a reach for anyone, Swarthmore.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that Middlebury and U of Chicago both have top 20 programs. Chicago is definitely top 10, and Midd probably too. And I have experience at Chicago too. It was absolutely amazing. I took intensive Japanese 101 this summer and well, first off it was the hardest class in my life for sure. But intensives there suck (when it comes to workload that is) cuz you get like a billion hours of homework/studying nightly if you plan on getting good grades.</p>
<p>My brother studies Japanese at Dartmouth and he loves the program there.</p>
<p>Tufts, Middlebury, and Vassar have (from what I hear) a nice international/foreign language focus (Middlebury and Tufts much more so than Vassar, but Vassar is strong nonetheless.)</p>
<p>I second the earlham notion. it sounds perfect for you!</p>
<p>There are so few students majoring in Japanese Language/Studies that regardless of where your friend goes to schoo, he will receive a great deal of individual attention. You will never have more than 60 or 70 students majoring in Japanese, and that's at huge universities like Cal and Michigan. As such, classes, even at those schools with 6 or 70 students per graduating class will not have large classes. I recommend he go to a university with a top program. Here are some schools I recommend highly:</p>
<p>Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Middlebury College
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Asian</a> Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>Ursinus (PA), Randolph (VA) and Kalamazoo (MI) are small schools with good Japanese programs</p>
<p>UCHICAGO and Middlebury.</p>
<p>Yeah, one of my good friends is studying Japanese at Chicago.</p>
<p>I've really been enjoying Japanese at Northwestern, but it's notorious in the school for being the most difficult language course offered- I don't know how it stacks up though.</p>
<p>what's his name? If he took Japanese 1 during the summer or is in Japanese 2 now, i might know him/her. haha</p>
<p>Middleburry is THE foreign language school.</p>