<p>I was wondering what schools have a strong English programs yet are not very small. I currently attend a very small, single sex, private school and want the exact opposite for college. I am currently looking into The University Of Texas At Austin, University of Southern Cal. Both of which have strong academics and great sports team ( I am a HUGE sports fanatic). So any input would be great, Thank you!</p>
<p>Can you a little more specific? What part of the country? Are you looking for an urban, suburban, or rural campus? Is any size TOO big?</p>
<p>i can go anywhere in the country as far as size there is nothing too big ( hence UT has 50,000 students) however, i would not prefer anything under 3,000.</p>
<p>University of Iowa</p>
<p>Iowa is more creative writing and less english lit per se.</p>
<p>But basically any top 50 school that focuses on liberal arts and not engineering or science is going to have a good program.</p>
<p>As far as I know, USC is science school and UT is not really what comes to mind when I think of quality liberal arts.</p>
<p>One thing you could do is check what the most popular majors are at each of the schools you're looking at. The more popular the major, the higher the probability that the program is good.</p>
<p>is the one in U of Colarado-Boulder any good?</p>
<p>i think Emory is pretty good. It has a great Liberal Arts programme. But the sports scene might turn you off. Oh well, there're lots of professional sports teams in Atlanta.</p>
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<p>Per the NRC rankings and USNWR departmental rankings, UT's liberal arts programs are almost as highly ranked as its sciences, engineering, business, communications, public affairs, architecture and law programs. And in some areas like Classics, UT is indeed ranked among the very top academic programs in the country. Not to mention, UT has a humanities resource NO university in the country can match with its Ransom Humanities Research Center. Consistenly ranked among the top libraries in the world, and third after only the LOC and NY Public Library in the U.S. in terms of cultural significance according to many literary scholars. (Yes, many scholars even consider it stronger than Harvard's Houghton and Yale's Beinecke). UT is actually quite strong across the board.</p>
<p>I'm not implying that U-Texas isn't a good school, only that there are better ones out there for persuing english literature.</p>
<p>And even though UT is ALMOST ranked as high as other schools in liberal arts, almost isn't equal to.</p>
<p>LACs for English from Rugg's Recommendations</p>
<p>Allegheny
Amherst
Bard
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr
Carleton
Centre
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Colgate
Colorado C
Connecticut C
U Dallas
Dartmouth
Davidson
Dickinson
Franklin and Marshall
Gettysburg
Grinnell
Hamilton
Heverford
Holy Cross
Illinois Wesleyan
Kalamazoo
Kenyon
Knox
Lafayette
Lawrence
Macalester
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Oberlin
Pomona
Reed
Rhodes
U Richmond
Sarah Lawrence
Skidmore
Smith
U South
St Olaf
Swartmore
Trinity (TX)
Vassar
Wake Forest
Washington and Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Wheaton
Whitman
Willamette
Williams</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergraduate English</p>
<p>Yale
UC Berkeley
Harvard
U Chicago
Stanford
Cornell
Princeton
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
U Penn
UCLA
Brown
Indiana
U Michigan
UC Irvine
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Rutgers
UNC Chapel Hill
U Iowa
u Virginia
NYU
U Notre Dame
U Illinois
U Washington
Duke
U Texas Austin
SUNY Stony Brook
U Rochester
Emory
Washington U St Louis
Dartmouth
U Minnesota
UC San Diego
Vanderbilt
Pomona
Brandeis
Swarthmore
Heverford
U Mass Amherst
UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>The English program through Plan II-Honors is pretty good. I know two of the professors there very personally and based on what they told me it/my impression of them and their colleagues it is a great place to be for English.</p>
<p>English lit is a very popular major, and pretty much any school aside from those with a heavy science/technical emphasis will likely have a quality program, and many will have an excellent program. </p>
<p>I wouldn't make my primary search focus english lit departments, but rather use other criteria that are important to you to find schools you like, and perhaps then make sure their english program is good, because they almost certainly will be.</p>
<p>Berkeley'd be a good idea. It has a strong English program; it's co-ed; and it's large. In addition, it's one of the best universities in the country. You can't go wrong with it! <em>is biased</em> =p</p>
<p>UNC Chapell Hill is good</p>
<p>Indiana University as I know.</p>
<p>What are your stats? Duke has a fantastic English program, but there's not much point in suggesting it or similar colleges if you can't get in. </p>
<p>Looking over the NRC English list might help.
<a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/nrc_rankings/area4.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area4.html</a></p>
<p>uconn- obviously great for sports, but excellent english department as well: wally lamb and sam pickering (the guy who inspired the movie dead poets society) teach there.</p>