What are good schools that also have good writing programs?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm probably going to be my class valedictorian, I have a lot of extracurriculars, and my test scores are good, so I obviously have a lot of options for where I can go to college. I've been considering a lot of Ivy's, but I don't want to limit myself to just those schools. In reality, I don't care whether or not a school is an Ivy, as long as I know it has a good academic program.</p>

<p>I would like to be some type of writer one day, so I was wondering what colleges are best for that career path.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Off the top of my head, NYU, Oberlin, Iowa, Wells, and Johns Hopkins, plus some sisters to the Ivy League like Barnard and Sarah Lawrence.</p>

<p>What exactly do you consider a “good school”? For many writing careers the prestige of an alma mater means squat, so there are a lot more options for writers than for people preparing for careers like law or business.</p>

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<p>Best for undergraduate creative writing:</p>

<p>Bard College
Beloit College
Bennington College
Carnegie Mellon University
Denison University
Emerson College
Goucher College
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Hollins University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Knox College
Middlebury College
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Sarah Lawrence College
Susquehanna University
UNC Chapel Hill
University of Redlands
University of the South (Sewanee)</p>

<p>[Complete</a> List of Programs](<a href=“http://awpwriter.org/membership/memberprograms.php]Complete”>http://awpwriter.org/membership/memberprograms.php)</p>

<p>[Hallmarks</a> of a Successful Undergraduate Writing Program](<a href=“http://awpwriter.org/membership/dh_4.htm]Hallmarks”>http://awpwriter.org/membership/dh_4.htm)</p>

<p>[Creative</a> Writing Pros and Cons](<a href=“http://www.webster.edu/~schustjm/creative.htm]Creative”>http://www.webster.edu/~schustjm/creative.htm)</p>

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<p>JHU. They produced my great-uncle and 2x Pulitzer Prize winner, Russell Baker :)</p>

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<p>Middlebury is a great school for writing.</p>

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<p>If you want to write scripts for TV shows, go to NYU. Princeton is great for finding your center as a writer, so you can sustain a career in it.</p>

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<p>Kenyon has long been known as a great school for writers.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/education/05writers.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/education/05writers.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>That could be handy ;)</p>

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<p>Look at Liberal Art colleges like Barnard
Also
Agnes Scott
U Alabama
Bard
Middlebury
Beloit
Barnard
Bennington
Brown
Carlow
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Creighton
Dana
Denison
Dominican
Eckerd
Emerson
Fla St
Grinnell
Hamilton
Hobart
U Iowa
John’s Hopkins
Kenyon
Lewis-Clark State (ID)
Linfield
Long Island U Southhampton
Lycoming
U Maine Farmington
U of Michigan
SUNY New Paltz
NC State
Northwestern
Oberlin
U Oregon
U Pitt
Redlands
St Andrews (NC)
San Fran St
C of Santa Fe
Sarah Lawrence
Stephens
Susquehanna
Sweet Briar
Temple
UVA
Washington Coll (MD)
Webster
Wheaton (MA)
Wichita State
Wittenberg</p>

<p>These have the top writing undergrad programs</p>