<p>I’m looking for any great schools that have amazing programs in one or most of the following:</p>
<li>Linguistics/ Foreign Languages</li>
<li>Humanities</li>
<li>Classics</li>
<li>History</li>
<li>Politics</li>
<li>Religion</li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks so much! I’m just not very familiar with the reputations of different schools.</p>
<p>This list screams University of Chicago to me. I don't have Rugg's or Gourman to back me up on this one, but I could send you to each department's homepage...</p>
<p>(Note: lingustics and foreign languages are not at all the same, Chicago is a great school for linguistics and for Ancient Near Eastern languages-- Akkadian and Ugaritic, anybody? )</p>
<p><a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/linguistics/%5B/url%5D">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/linguistics/</a>
<a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/index.htm</a>
<a href="http://history.uchicago.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://history.uchicago.edu/</a>
<a href="http://political-science.uchicago.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://political-science.uchicago.edu/</a>
<a href="http://divinity.uchicago.edu/degree/undergraduate.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://divinity.uchicago.edu/degree/undergraduate.shtml</a></p>
<p>Plus, there is an interdisciplinary major called "Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities" where students choose courses from across all fields in the humanities and work on a thesis project; there's also a major called Fundamentals which is extremely appealing to those of us who don't want to decide on any one major:</p>
<p>Above and beyond the individual strength of programs, though, I think about Chicago when I see your list because I think most students (myself included) came into the school with a list of areas that we wanted to study, too, and we have been able to satisfy our curiosity through the Core Curriculum and classes across the board.</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergraduate linguistics</p>
<p>UCLA
U Chicago
UC Berkeley
U Penn
Cornell
UC San Diego
Yale
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Stanford
MIT
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Indiana U Bloomington
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
NYU
Ohio State
U Rochester
Harvard
U Hawaii Manoa
U Kansas
Rice
U Texas Austin
U Pittsburgh
U Arizona
U Minnesota
UC Irvine
U Florida
U Iowa
U Mass Amherst
UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>The University of Michigan is strong in all those subjects save Religion.</p>
<p>I second the suggestion of U of Chicago. Unalove's post says it all.</p>
<p>Harvard and Berkeley</p>
<p>All of the Ivies, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago</p>
<p>Of course, not all of them are good for every single one of those, but you probably won't go wrong with either one.</p>
<p>With undergrad, looking at specific departments for such a broad array of topics means that strong overall undergrads are your best bet.</p>
<p>hah, I didn't realize Gourman thought that highly of Chicago's linguistics department.... </p>
<p>One of the questions I'd be asking myself through this process is how important being able to major in religion is. Religion is one of those wildcard majors; only a handful of universities offer worthwhile programs in it, and the universities that offer it may not be the best fit for you.</p>
<p>I might as well also put in a good word for Chicago's polar opposite, Brown. Brunonians have interests that scatter all across the board, plus Brown has a religious studies program.</p>