<p>What schools are nationally known for their English departments? I specifically mean undergraduate English departments.</p>
<p>william and mary</p>
<p>Berkeley, Ivy's</p>
<p>Amherst College, Middlebury College, Williams College, Vassar College and many of the other LACs have strong English programs, at the undergraduate level.</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>Duke, Amherst, Holy Cross, Williams, Davidson.</p>
<p>Isn't Kenyon supposed to be great for English?</p>
<p>Yale is really good.</p>
<p>Iowa State is excellent, especially for creative writing. I'm surprised no one here has suggested it.</p>
<p>Well, creative writing and English Literature are two very different majors. I think it would be important to ascertain which the OP meant.</p>
<p>In terms of English Lit...come on. Every school, aside from the extremely tech-oriented, is going to have a good program. It is a hugely popular major, and one that any school offers. Don't base your school off of this, or at least not as a primary consideration.</p>
<p>If what you mean was actually creative writing, then that is something that isn't found at many schools, and you actually do need to look for. However, the question you asked is not the correct one.</p>