<p>Purdue for Liberal Arts? Specifically English or History? Thoughts? </p>
<p>Most students overestimate the importance of the college for undergraduate studies. Having said that, there are hundreds of other colleges that one would think of for English or History before one would think of Purdue. Still, if you have a good reason for going to Purdue and not, say, Indiana, then go to Purdue because choice of school is not all that important at the u/g level in these majors.</p>
<p>There may be people who think that the Purdue English or History department is a secret jewel, but I’m not one of them.</p>
<p>Thanks @jkeil911 . Has anybody had personal experience with Purdue Lib Arts? Thanks!</p>
<p>Are you instate? Why not IU. Either way, Purdue is a well-ranked national U. It’s going to be fine for English and History.</p>
<p>Yes instate. No IU for personal reasons. Just wondering if Purdue will have good internship/study abroad options…?</p>
<p>sure. it’s not rinky-dink college. it’s a major university. check out this on the study abroad program:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ippu.purdue.edu”>http://www.ippu.purdue.edu</a></p>
<p>you mention the english program, so I thought I’d throw in this tidbit about their writing program. it has a nationally-recognized writing program website called PurdueOwl that I use every semester, so even though the university is focused on STEM, it is putting resources into the writing program so important to all the majors at the uni. </p>
<p>A little more research indicates that the English major has four foci: literature, education, creative writing, and professional writing, so it’s not rinky-dink either. The course offerings are about as broad as you could want. There’s not a lot of interest in lit crit by itself, but there are indications in the course descriptions that lit crit has informed many of the mid-level and upper-level courses. Whatever your postgraduate intentions, Purdue’s English major should prepare you well if you work as hard as you should.</p>