<p>Thought this thread might be interesting. Which colleges have an area of study for which they are particularly renowned? E.g.</p>
<p>Beloit: Anthropology
Williams: Art History
Kenyon: Creative Writing
St. Olaf: Math</p>
<p>Middlebury - foreign languages
Wesleyan - film, world music
Connecticut College - botany
Bowdoin - political science
Oberlin - music</p>
<p>USC: business
Berkeley: anthropology
Northeastern: engineering
Clemson: agricultural science and engineering
Furman: physics</p>
<p>Rhodes: biology
U Memphis: egyptology, psychology
Vanderbilt: education
Centre: study abroad</p>
<p>^^ USC also has a great film program</p>
<p>Northeastern: well known for their intern program. At least one year of the four years in “college” is working/interning at a company.</p>
<p>Syracuse, Northwestern, Mizzou: Journalism
Penn: Business</p>
<p>Holy Cross-PreMed</p>
<p>Purdue: Engineering, Agricultural Engineering
Johnson & Wales: Hospitality & Tourism Management, Culinary Arts</p>
<p>Harvard: Being Harvard</p>
<p>UPenn, WUSTL, USC: expert gaming (of rankings)</p>
<p>USC - film studies/programs
UCLA - hot babes! </p>
<p>Stanford - computer science
UC Berkeley - chemistry
Caltech - physics</p>
<p>Chicago - Economics
Penn - business
Columbia - politics</p>
<p>JHU - medicine
Yale - law</p>
<p>MIT - engineering
Harvard - everything</p>
<p>Clemson University</p>
<p>38: Ranking our mechanical engineering graduate program holds among public national universities, per U.S.News & World Report.
34: Ranking our computer engineering graduate program holds among public national universities, per U.S.News & World Report.
32: Ranking our civil engineering graduate program holds among public national universities, per U.S.News & World Report.
19: Ranking our Environmental Engineering graduate program holds among public national universities, per U.S.News & World Report.
22: Ranking our bioengineering graduate program holds among public national universities, per U.S.News & World Report.
24: Ranking our industrial engineering graduate program holds among public national universities, per U.S.News & World Report.
39: Ranking our chemical engineering graduate program holds among public national universities, per U.S.News & World Report.
32: Ranking our electrical engineering graduate program holds among public national universities, per U.S.News & World Report.
27: Ranking Clemson’s Undergraduate Business School holds among Top Public National Universities, according to BusinessWeek magazine in 2009.
11: Ranking of our architecture graduate programs, according to Design Intelligence in 2009.
12: Ranking of our landscape architecture undergraduate program, according to Design Intelligence in 2009.
7: Ranking of our graduate urban planning program as rated by Planetizen Guide in 2008.
8: Number of our graduate engineering programs that are ranked in the top 40 among the public national universities.</p>
<p>University of Cincinnati- DAAP (architecture and art/design)
Ohio State- Having everything known to mankind
Ohio U- Communications/Journalism, partying
Bowling Green- Sports Medicine
Indiana U- Business
Purdue- Engineering
Miami U (OH)- Paper Science
Case Western- Engineering/medicine
Berea- Free Tuition for those with low income
Kenyon- English
Oberlin- Music, being crazy liberal 
Michigan- great at all stuff</p>
<p>Penn State: Football (and ice cream making)</p>
<p>University of Georgia: Great music and hot girls
UNC-Chapel Hill: Basketball
University of Florida: Tim Tebow
Stanford: Drunk Mascot</p>
<p>duke: losing in the sweet 16</p>
<p>^Oooh that’s not cool man :(</p>
<p>^ Don’t forget losing to Wisconsin. :)</p>
<p>And losing at home to Carolina…:)</p>