<p>Which majors/programs/departments are the strongest and most attractive there? Which of its specialties are attractive enough for anyone to go there from the West Coast?</p>
<p>How are its music, foreign languages and linguistics departments? What about other humanities?</p>
<p>Political science (and pre-law stuff) seems to be in high prestige.</p>
<p>Also, medical sciences are quite popular at Brandeis. Brandeis is known for good admit rates to Graduate schools, so any pre-professional program is basically really good at Brandeis.</p>
<p>Linguistics has been neglected recently--lost a prestigious professor.</p>
<p>Asian languages are said to be good.</p>
<p>psychology and biological sciences are good.</p>
<p>Most prestigious department--Judaic and Near Eastern Studies.</p>
<p>The Brandeis Music Department is excellent. For a small liberal arts-type school, it's one of the best. They don't offer a performance major, but for a B.A. degree (as well as grad programs in music history, theory and composition), the courses and professors are first-rate, very well-respected. The Lydian String Quartet is in residence, so lessons on a string instrument and chamber music are particularly strong, and the chorus and orchestra are decent. There's major scholarship money available to the very best students who audition.</p>
<p>what about CS?</p>
<p>how are neuroscience and languages?</p>
<p>haha, the title of this thread, Bran-Dies......come on, it's Brandeis</p>
<p>Brandeis is really good at spelling...</p>
<p>Theater is a well-developed offering at Brandeis</p>
<p>i'm so sad to hear about the loss of the linguistics professor.
linguistics seems to be dying out. i know barnard lost a professor recently.
is the program still worth checking out?</p>
<p>how about french, german or russian?</p>
<p>okay, uh, what's brandeis moderately good at?</p>
<p>sheesh, really?</p>
<p>Most programs are good. I think the biggest weak spots right now are linguistics because we've lost a few professors and the film because it's so new.</p>
<p>I'm especially happy with Latin American studies (there's such a great faculty support system there), IGS, politics, and anthropology and that's pretty much all I can speak for.</p>
<p>How is creative writing? Writing/English in general? Sociology and economics?</p>
<p>Economics also has a good reputation at Brandeis. Prof. Coiner (he also does the intro courses) is a campus favorite.</p>
<p>I don't know about French, Russian should be good because there are also many native speakers (bilinguals) on campus.</p>
<p>In connection with German, there is also a European Institute partially financed by the German gov't that brings famous political and cultural speakers to campus regularly. The department also hosts regular Kaffestunde with campus
native speakers.</p>
<p>Journalism also recently named a couple of new profs and got a large grant to develop a program in investigative journalism. (Journalism can only be done as a minor). There are two good active student newspapers as well as a humor-satire paper.</p>
<p>English and languages are good.</p>
<p>Biochemistry is very strong. I am an alum, and one of my classmates, also a biochem major, won a nobel prize (Roderick MacKinnon). Neuroscience is also very strong.</p>
<p>How is computer science at Brandeis? Any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>what about Finance? heard Brandeis was a major research center...true?</p>
<p>Any feedback will be appreciated</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>Don't know about the research center but I heard they have a student Finance Club which is allowed to manage 25% of Brandeis investment choices from the endowment.</p>