<p>Ok guys...I am into Literature and I want your help to apply to colleges with very good Lit departments. I know Vassar is one...others?</p>
<p>Bard, Middlebury, Kenyon</p>
<p>Wesleyan in Connecticut.</p>
<p>University of Virginia. The admissions dean we spoke to said the English department ranked as one of the top in the WORLD.</p>
<p>UVA is a great school but it's not a LAC in this sense.</p>
<p>Middlebury and Kenyon, definitely</p>
<p>Is UVA an LAC in any sense? </p>
<p>Pomona! Pomona! Pomona!</p>
<p>I second Kenyon.</p>
<p>Bard, Sarah Lawrence, Kenyon</p>
<p>well, I'd say Kenyon, but that'd be repetitive.</p>
<p>add barnard, connecticut college and bard</p>
<p>Check out Oberlin!</p>
<p>I second Oberlin -- last year it had 88 graduates in English, 30 of whom were in creative writing. That is more than just about any other liberal arts college, even considering that Oberlin is slightly larger than some. It has great faculty.</p>
<p>Schools with high future English PhD production are likely good at undergrad English. Here are the top 48 (pick out the LACs).</p>
<p>Number of PhDs per 1000 graduates </p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database</p>
<p>Number of Undergraduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database </p>
<p>1 Yale University 18
2 Swarthmore College 18
3 Amherst College 17
4 Bryn Mawr College 16
5 Bennington College 16
6 Reed College 15
7 Williams College 15
8 Oberlin College 13
9 Carleton College 13
10 Wesleyan University 13
11 St John's College (both campuses) 12
12 Pomona College 12
13 University of the South 11
14 Barnard College 11
15 Vassar College 11
16 Haverford College 11
17 Princeton University 10
18 Harvard University 10
19 University of Chicago 9
20 Sarah Lawrence College 9
21 Wellesley College 9
22 Beloit College 9
23 Columbia University in the City of New York 9
24 Brown University 9
25 Agnes Scott College 9
26 Smith College 8
27 Kenyon College 8
28 Kalamazoo College 8
29 Mount Holyoke College 8
30 University of Dallas 8
31 Stanford University 8
32 Davidson College 7
33 Hendrix College 7
34 Bard College 7
35 Earlham College 7
36 Grinnell College 7
37 Goucher College 7
38 Hampshire College 6
39 Dartmouth College 6
40 Occidental College 6
41 College of the Holy Cross 6
42 Middlebury College 6
43 Trinity University 6
44 Scripps College 6
45 College of Wooster 6
46 Colby College 6
47 Bowdoin College 6
48 Hollins College 6</p>
<p>Middlebury, definitely. The "Bread Loaf" School of English is housed there!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone..Much appreciated!</p>
<p>BB012, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an academically rigorous LAC that *didn't *have a good English literature program. Unless you're looking for a specific sub-category, you can be reasonably assured that English will be one of the most popular and well funded departments. You'd be better off focusing on other aspects of fit -- location, personality for example.</p>