<p>I'm looking for schools in or near big cities and that are east of Chicago. </p>
<p>The cities I were considering are Chicago, Boston, Philly, and New York, but I am open to all suggestions. </p>
<p>I am especially interested in creative writing and would prefer the school to have some kind of campus, but once again, I'd like to hear all suggestions.</p>
<p>Pittsburgh is a decent sized city, 2nd largest college city, and CMU has one of the oldest and best creative writing programs. Oh and I like it's campus from when I visited..</p>
<p>NYC : Columbia , NYU ( Does not have real campus but ecxcellent school), Fordham ( Best campus ever, I love this school.), Pace( No real campus), Pace Westchester , New School ( no campus), CUNY System : CCNY , Iona College , Hofstra University.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins in Baltimore has an interesting creative writing program.</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence is in a commuter suburb of NYC with its own campus-about 20-30 min by commuter rail to Grand Central--good creative writing. I assume you are female, so you should definitely consider Barnard. Near Philly,look at Haverford and Bryn Mawr (suburban campuses-easy commute to City). In Boston, Boston University--not a great campus but in the center of things.</p>
<p>I second Johns Hopkins. They have an excellent program in creative writing.</p>
<p>Boston: Harvard, Emerson, BU, BC, Tufts</p>
<p>Most people think that studying something like creative writing as an undergrad is b.s. That's why people do MFA's in creative writing, once you have a solid education in literature. Study English as an undergrad; take some creative writing electives, but don't major in it. The best situation for you might be to major in English and write a creative writing thesis, which is basically like a mini-novel or collection of short stories. So few schools even offer it as an undergraduate concentration. Only somewhat flighty, artsy-fartsy places like Sarah Lawrence.</p>
<p>Addendum: </p>
<p>JuJu: Harvard and Tufts don't have creative writing programs at neither the grad or undergrad level. There are creative writing courses offered but they are electives. English majors can write honors theses in creative writing. But that's it.</p>
<p>I believe Emerson and BU have them only at grad level. I don't think BC has one at all.</p>
<p>lolabelle your first post on this thread was the first place i"ve even seen you not mention tufts so the second was a relief!</p>
<p>I don't think Emory (Atlanta) has been mentioned yet</p>
<p>Bobby100: I write about Tufts because I know about Tufts. The reason you see me always mention Tufts is that I only search for posts that include the word "Tufts" so I necessarily nearly always either refer or include the word in my posts. Thanks for your sarcasm though -- it was appreciated.</p>
<p>Well what about schools with good English departments?</p>
<p>I looked into Barnard a lot, but I don't know if I can handle the social life of an all-girls college.</p>
<p>Even if a school doesn't have a creative writing program, almost every English department offers an array of creative writing courses that would keep you busy.</p>
<p>Any more suggestions :)</p>
<p>I should also mention Brown U.--good English and Creative Writing --in Providence, RI a smallish city but in recent years a vastly improved downtown area and convenient to Boston--about 40 min by Amtrak. Also has an attractive campus with good theater dept. New York City is reachable in under 4 hours--so convenient weekend distance.</p>