<p>Title pretty much says it all.</p>
<p>I'm looking for a college that has a high quality writing program and a high quality art program, particularly in the fields of creative writing and illustration, preferably with connections to actual firms and businesses.</p>
<p>I'm not fussy about where the college is, I'm just looking for options right now. Any help is immensely appreciated, as I'm pretty much stuck on where to start.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>~Helix</p>
<p>I’m looking into writing as well and Amherst, Emerson, Johns Hopkins, Brown, and Carnegie Mellon all have majors in Creative Writing. I’ve heard that Iowa has a good program, but I don’t think its a major or a minor. Also, Bowdoin has a good English department. You could also look into art schools: California College of the Arts, california institute of the arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. You could look into larger schools, like University of Illinois, that have Fine Arts schools within the larger University. I’ve also come to find that Yale, Princeton, and Harvard all have really distinguished faculty in their English departments. Princeton has a creative writing certificate and one of the professors is Joyce Carol Oats (one of the most influential writers of our era, has won a National Book Award and been nominated for the Pulitzer).</p>
<p>It really depends on the type of school you want, environment, what context you want to study writing in, and your future goals. For me I want to go to law school after college, so an art school wouldn’t work. But for you, since you want to just focus on writing and illustration, the options are really open.</p>
<p>Hope that helped :)</p>
<p>Skidmore…</p>
<p>DD1 is pursuing a similar route at Denison.</p>
<p>Linfield College in McMinnville OR or Willamette University in Salem OR. Both have great arts programs and Linfield in particular is promising for the creative writer.</p>
<p>Also, Knox (IL), Bennington (VT), Kenyon (OH) and Bard (NY).</p>
<p>USC or NYU maybe…</p>
<p>Hamilton College</p>
<p>Hollins has easily the best creative writing program among LACs, and its art programs are also quite strong. The alumni network is surprisingly strong, even for a women’s college.</p>
<p>Emerson, Sarah Lawrence, and Warren Wilson would also be worth a look.</p>
<p>EDIT: This thread is 5 months old. I’m not sure the OP is checking it anymore. :p</p>
<p>NYU barely has an undergrad program, only a minor in CR and the classes are usually taught by grad students.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins has a strong writing program. For the art part, look into opportunities for cross-registration at MICA.</p>
<p><a href=“http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/undergrad.html[/url]”>http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/undergrad.html</a></p>
<p>Middlebury College also has strong writing programs.</p>
<p>Jon Favreau, Obama’s 27 year old Chief Speechwriter went to Holy Cross.</p>