<p>Quick! What's the best business school in the country?!?</p>
<p>Most people would respond with "Wharton". I'd like to know what everyone on College Confidential thinks those instantaneously recognizable schools are by each individual area of study. I figured this would be both enjoyable, and a condensed resource for all those posters looking for the best school in their particular field of interest. If you see any omissions in the study areas, just add it in.</p>
<p>Areas:</p>
<p>English:
History:
Economics:
Business:
Music:
International Relations:
Mathematics:
Biology/Chemistry:
Drama/Theatre:
Visual Arts:
Linguistics:</p>
<p>Before people pounce on me, let me just end by saying that this thread is purely for debate. PLEASE do not get hyper-sensitive if your particular favorite is ignored by a poster, and please do not bash schools. I know as well as anyone that there are many schools that excel in any one area, and that some areas probably don't have any one single school that defines the major, but I was just interested in seeing what those singular knee-jerk reaction colleges were for everyone; maybe see some trends in the biases. Thanks.</p>
<p>Wow, you’re not a science person.</p>
<p>Biology and Chemistry should be completely distinct, just as you’ve recognized Econ and Business should be.</p>
<p>Not mentioning physics, applied math (as a separate field from pure math), geology, computer science, cognitive science (linguistics is often considered a subfield here), psychology, etc…</p>
<p>You’re leaving out a bunch of very important subject areas…</p>
<p>Ok, well that’s why I asked people to add in things as they see fit. I didn’t want to get too specific, so as not to get pedantic, which was why I had broad categories like Mathematics and Visual Arts. </p>
<p>English:
History:
Economics:
Business:
Music:
International Relations:
Mathematics:
Biology:
Chemistry:
Computer Science:
Drama/Theatre:
Visual Arts:
Linguistics:
Psychology:</p>
<p>This is how I modified it, but if you have any schools in mind for the ones you mentioned, feel free to do so!</p>
<p>is this going to become a subjective thing again?</p>
<p>English: Columbia
History:
Economics: Duke, UChicago
Business: UPenn, UVa
Music:
International Relations:
Mathematics: Princeton,
Molecular Biology: Stanford
Ecological/Environmental Biology: Duke
Chemistry:
Computer Science: MIT, UC Berkeley
Drama/Theatre:
Visual Arts:
Linguistics:
Psychology:</p>
<p>
of course! asking for the best of anything is always subjective.</p>
<p>English: Berkeley
History: Princeton/Stanford/Berkeley/Yale
Economics: Harvard/MIT/Chicago
Business: Penn
Music (Performance): Julliard
International Relations: Harvard
Mathematics: Princeton
Molecular Biology: Stanford/MIT/Berkeley
Ecological/Environmental Biology: Chicago
Chemistry: Berkeley/MIT/Caltech/Stanford
Computer Science: Stanford/MIT/Berkeley
Drama/Theatre: Julliard/Northwestern
Visual Arts:
Linguistics:
Psychology: Stanford/Berkeley
Physics: MIT/Stanford
Political Science: Harvard/Princeton/Stanford
Electrical Engineering: MIT/Stanford/Berkeley
Chemical Engineering: MIT/Berkeley/Minnesota
Biomedical Engineering: Johns Hopkins/Duke
Mechanical Engineering: MIT/Stanford/Berkeley
Civil Engineering: Illinois/Berkeley
Industrial Engineering: Georgia Tech/Berkeley/Michigan
Materials Engineering: MIT/Northwestern/Illinois
Nuclear Engineering: Michigan/MIT</p>
<p>English: Brown
Economics: University of Chicago
Business: Wharton
Music: Julliard and the Curtis Institute of Music
International Relations: Georgetown University’s SFS and Princeton’s WWS
Mathematics: MIT
Biology: Johns Hopkins
Computer Science:
Drama/Theatre: Julliard and Tisch at NYU</p>
<p>Just my take :)</p>
<p>
Eh? Cornell, Duke, Stanford, and UCD completely trounce Chicago for ecology. Chicago manages to fare reasonably well in such rankings because it is extremely strong in evolutionary biology – although many of those scientists are actually based in the geosciences.</p>
<p>Anthropology (Michigan)
Archaeology (Penn)
Art History (NYU)
Astronomy (Caltech)
Chemistry (B/CT/M/S)
Classics (Berkeley)
Computer Science (Stanford)
Ecology (Cornell or Duke)
Economics (Chicago/Harvard/MIT)
English (Berkeley or Yale)
Geology (Caltech)
Geography (Penn State)
History (Yale)
Linguistics (UCLA)
Marine Science (MIT)
Math (Princeton)
Molecular Biology (MIT or Stanford)
Musicology (Harvard)
Neuroscience (UCSD)
Philosophy (NYU)
Physics (MIT or Stanford)
Political Science (Harvard)
Psychology (Stanford)
Religion (Chicago or Duke)
Sociology (Michigan or Wisconsin)
Statistics (Berkeley or Stanford)</p>
<p>I’ll just list the ones I’m familiar with:</p>
<p>English: Yale.<br>
History: Harvard.
Economics: UChicago.
Business: Wharton.
Music: Juilliard.
International Relations: Georgetown SFS (done).
Mathematics: Princeton, easily.
Biology: no clue
Chemistry: no clue
Computer Science: no clue
Drama/Theatre: Conservatory-wise? Juilliard. Overall? Yale.
Visual Arts: Again, for a well-rounded school with a good VA program, Yale.
Linguistics: not sure
Psychology: not sure…probably Harvard</p>
<p>P.S. English at Berkeley might as well be “Sex and Gender Studies” for crying out loud. Yale is similar, to a degree, in its liberalism, but at least its older and wiser profs keep it fairly well-grounded in terms of traditional theory and critical analysis.</p>
<p>English: Cornell
History: Chicago, Berkeley
Psychology: Stanford, Berkeley</p>
<p>I guess I’ll add in my 2 cents.</p>
<p>English: Yale/Berkeley
History: Yale
Economics: UChicago
Business: UPenn Wharton
Music: Julliard/Harvard
International Relations: Georgetown SFS
Mathematics: Princeton
Biology: Johns Hopkins
Chemistry: CalTech/Berkeley
Computer Science: MIT
Drama/Theatre: Julliard/NYU Tisch
Visual Arts: RISD/?
Linguistics: MIT/UPenn
Psychology: Stanford
Art History: NYU
Classics: Harvard</p>