<p>Are there any already well known schools (in general, not specific to language) that have a strong "language" program?</p>
<p>Wisconsin-over 60.</p>
<p><a href="http://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/</a></p>
<p>Middlebury <a href="http://middlebury.edu%5B/url%5D">http://middlebury.edu</a> and Concorida College in Moorhead, MN has summer language camps so I'm assuming they would have an alright language program. <a href="http://cord.edu%5B/url%5D">http://cord.edu</a></p>
<p>middlebury</p>
<p>Middlebury is by far the most well-known of the "language schools" but it has a few things about it that might not be right for everyone.</p>
<p>Macalester, and it's extremely diverse with tons of international students</p>
<p>I see Midd has a grand total of 9 languages. Not very deep. UW and some other large schools have 50-60+ and overseas programs in most of them. Depends what you want.</p>
<p>The big schools generally will have more choices, and if you choose carefully, more electives. Wisconsin is especially well-known.</p>
<p>Among the LACs/Ivies, etc, here is a previous post:</p>
<p>One way to get a look at the differences among schools in languages generally speaking is to look at the number of language/literature and area/ethnic studies majors. The data is simply indicative, not conclusive. Just one more thing to add into the hopper. The area/ethnic studies addition is important as there are some schools - Scripps and Mt. Holyoke being good examples -- where the majors are not necessarily literature based - they will have a "French Studies" major, for example, rather than a "French" major built around literature.</p>
<p>Lots of caveats with the data. First of all, it will vary year by year. Secondly a low percentage at a large school may still result in a substantially robust peer group, whereas at a small school, it will not. </p>
<p>If anything, though, the differences in the data likely understate the differences in the schools. Schools with larger numbers of majors likely have an even larger number of minors, or students taking language electives. The number of upper-level offerings will be greater than than the differences in the major percentages, and the sizes of the respective peer groups at each school will vary accordingly.</p>
<p>Anyway, here's some semi-random data as reported in the Common Data Sets. The first number is the percentage of language/literature majors; the second area/ethnic studies majors:</p>
<p>Mt. Holyoke - 3.96/6.85
Macalester - 9.1/3.8
Princeton - 4.3/1.1
Middlebury - 11.0/4.0
Swarthmore - 6.6./1.2
Hamilton - 9.2/3.7
Smith - 9.62/8.59
Williams - 4.0/3.0
Dartmouth - 6.0/2.0
Scripps - 2.9/12.2
Grinnell - 10.05/0
Stanford - 3.5/3.5
Cornell - 2.0/2.0</p>
<p>In addition to U Wisconsin:
Cornell
U Michigan
UC Berkeley
Columbia
NYU
U Chicago
Harvard
Indiana U Bloomington
U Penn
Stanford
Yale
U Texas Austin
U Minn for Scandanavian languages
Middlebury
Grinnell
Macalester</p>
<p>According to the Gourman Report (not 100% reliable)...</p>
<p>ARABIC:
Harvard University
New York University
Princeton University
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>CHINESE:
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>FRENCH:
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Indiana University-Bloomington
New York University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>GERMAN:
Cornell University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>GREEK:
Brown University
Columbia University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
University of California-Berkeley
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>HEBREW:
Brandeis University
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
New York University
Princeton University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>ITALIAN:
Brown University
Columbia University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>JAPANESE:
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>LATIN:
Columbia University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Yale University</p>
<p>POTUGUESE:
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Stanford University
Tulane University
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>RUSSIAN:
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
New York University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>SCANDINAVIAN:
Harvard University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>SLAVIC LANGUAGES:
Brown University
Columbia University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
New York University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>SPANISH:
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>Among the LACs, schools like Bryn Mawr, Middlebury and Vassar are excellent. It goes without saying that Amherst, Swarthmore and Williams are also excellent.</p>
<p>"It goes without saying that...Williams are also excellent."</p>
<p>Hardly anything could be further from the truth. This is one area where it wouldn't rank in the top 50. The critical mass isn't there, the upper level electives aren't there, the language groups, living houses, etc. aren't there. In most areas, the faculties are tiny; the number of majors tiny. The college itself will tell you that they are not "known to have a strong language program".</p>
<p>Amherst has small departments of French, German, Spanish, Russian, and a very small program in Japanese. Swarthmore has a bit more, with 6.6% of students majoring in languages, but it still wouldn't be close to the first group.</p>
<p>I think UCSB[/url</a>] should be added to the list of universities with attractive Chinese language programs. Additionally, [url=<a href="http://myuh.hawaii.edu/pls/uhdad/avail.classes?i=MAN&t=200610%5DU">http://myuh.hawaii.edu/pls/uhdad/avail.classes?i=MAN&t=200610]U</a> Hawaii at Manoa looks like they have a good overall selection of Asian (East and Southeast) and Pacific Islander languages, and [url=<a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/%5DUCLA%5B/url">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/]UCLA[/url</a>] also has quite a variety of different languages to choose from. (As a prospective Chinese major, I'd very much like to attend any of those schools...)</p>