<p>I was just wondering what field(s) Michigan ranks the highest or has a great curriculum in the LSA. Which majors in the LSA is michigan known for?</p>
<p>Women’s Studies</p>
<p>^Somebody is headed towards the naughty list…</p>
<p>no it totally is</p>
<p>psych department is ranked #1 in the nation</p>
<p>^ ohhhh I never knew our underwater basketweaving dept is #1 in the nation!!!</p>
<p>How do you rank most Liberal Arts anyway?</p>
<p>The grad programs are ranked. Most people assume this quality trickles down to undergrad, not completely true though.</p>
<p>Actually giants, the quality does trickle down. Only clueless pseudo intellectuals and people associated with universities/colleges that have no / weak graduate programs try to differentiate between undergraduate and graduate programs. The fact is, undergrads and graduate students generally have access to the same faculty and classrooms as graduate students.</p>
<p>That said, popular majors are always going to be crowded, be it at Michigan or at any other top university. But there are literally only 5 “popular majors”. The five are: Biology, Economics, English, Political Science and Psychology. Those five majors will tend to be saturated and undergrads must take a good deal of initiative to benefit from what the university has to offer. That’s true whether a student is enrolled at Michigan or at Cornell or at Penn etc… </p>
<p>All other majors in the school of LSA will be sparcely populated with undergrads and offer the services of a large, world class faculty as well as broad and deep course offerings.</p>
<p>To answer the OP’s questions, LSA is very strong across the academic spectrum. Below are some rankings of graduate programs, as well as the ranking of other universities with equally strong programs in the same field. As you can see, an an overall entity, LSA is one of the top 10 of its kind in the entire nation:</p>
<p>ANTHROPOLOGY:
MICHIGAN #1</p>
<p>BIOLOGY:</p>
<h1>15 Columbia</h1>
<h1>20 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>20 Penn</h1>
<h1>24 UCLA</h1>
<h1>27 Northwestern</h1>
<h1>34 Brown</h1>
<h1>34 Dartmouth</h1>
<p>CHEMISTRY (very few undergrads enrolled and faculty very involved in undergraduate instruction and research):</p>
<h1>13 Chicago</h1>
<h1>13 Yale</h1>
<h1>16 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>16 Princeton</h1>
<h1>16 UCLA</h1>
<h1>19 Penn</h1>
<h1>21 Johns Hopkins</h1>
<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE:</p>
<h1>11 Caltech</h1>
<h1>13 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>14 UCLA</h1>
<h1>17 Columbia</h1>
<h1>17 Harvard</h1>
<h1>17 Penn</h1>
<h1>20 Brown</h1>
<p>EARTH SCIENCE (very few undergrads enrolled and faculty very involved in undergraduate instruction and research):</p>
<h1>8 Harvard</h1>
<h1>9 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>9 Princeton</h1>
<h1>12 Yale</h1>
<h1>12 Cornell</h1>
<h1>17 UCLA</h1>
<p>ECONOMICS:</p>
<h1>9 Penn</h1>
<h1>10 Columbia</h1>
<h1>12 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>12 NYU</h1>
<h1>14 UCLA</h1>
<h1>18 Cornell</h1>
<h1>19 Brown</h1>
<h1>19 Duke</h1>
<p>ENGLISH:</p>
<h1>10 Duke</h1>
<h1>10 UCLA</h1>
<h1>13 Brown</h1>
<h1>13 Johns Hopkins</h1>
<h1>13 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>20 Northwestern</h1>
<p>HISTORY (few undergrads enrolled and faculty very involved in undergraduate instruction and research):</p>
<h1>5 Chicago</h1>
<h1>5 Harvard</h1>
<h1>7 Columbia</h1>
<h1>7 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>9 Johns Hopkins</h1>
<h1>9 Penn</h1>
<h1>9 UCLA</h1>
<h1>12 Cornell</h1>
<h1>14 Duke</h1>
<h1>17 Brown</h1>
<p>MATHEMATICS (very few undergrads enrolled and faculty very involved in undergraduate instruction and research):</p>
<h1>6 Chicago</h1>
<h1>7 Caltech</h1>
<h1>8 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>8 UCLA</h1>
<h1>10 Columbia</h1>
<h1>10 Yale</h1>
<h1>13 Cornell</h1>
<h1>14 Brown</h1>
<h1>16 Northwestern</h1>
<h1>24 Duke</h1>
<p>PHILOSOPHY (very few undergrads enrolled and faculty very involved in undergraduate instruction and research):</p>
<h1>1 NYU</h1>
<h1>3 Princeton</h1>
<h1>5 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>6 Harvard</h1>
<h1>6 MIT</h1>
<h1>8 Yale</h1>
<h1>9 Stanford</h1>
<h1>9 UC-Berkeley</h1>
<h1>9 UCLA</h1>
<p>PHYSICS (very few undergrads enrolled and faculty very involved in undergraduate instruction and research):</p>
<h1>11 Columbia</h1>
<h1>11 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>11 Yale</h1>
<h1>17 Penn</h1>
<h1>19 UCLA</h1>
<p>POLITICAL SCIENCE:</p>
<h1>1 Harvard</h1>
<h1>1 Princeton</h1>
<h1>1 Stanford</h1>
<h1>4 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>5 Yale</h1>
<h1>6 UC-Berkeley</h1>
<h1>7 Columbia</h1>
<h1>9 Duke</h1>
<h1>9 MIT</h1>
<p>PSYCHOLOGY:</p>
<h1>1 Stanford</h1>
<h1>1 UC-Berkeley</h1>
<h1>3 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>3 UCLA</h1>
<h1>3 Yale</h1>
<h1>8 Princeton</h1>
<p>SOCIOLOGY:</p>
<h1>1 UC Berkeley</h1>
<h1>3 Chicago</h1>
<h1>3 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>3 Princeton</h1>
<h1>5 Harvard</h1>
<h1>5 Stanford</h1>
<h1>9 Northwestern</h1>
<h1>9 UCLA</h1>
<p>OVERALL SCIENCE AVERAGE:</p>
<h1>6 Princeton</h1>
<h1>7 Cornell</h1>
<h1>8 UIUC</h1>
<h1>9 Columbia</h1>
<h1>10 Michigan</h1>
<h1>11 Chicago</h1>
<h1>12 Yale</h1>
<p>OVERALL HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AVERAGE:</p>
<h1>1 Stanford</h1>
<h1>1 UC-Berkeley</h1>
<h1>3 Harvard</h1>
<h1>4 Chicago</h1>
<h1>4 MICHIGAN</h1>
<h1>4 Princeton</h1>
<h1>4 Yale</h1>
<h1>8 Columbia</h1>
<h1>9 UCLA</h1>
<h1>10 Penn</h1>
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<p>I didn’t say it didn’t at all. Resources are fairly equivalent. I suppose what I meant was high quality grad student body does not translate to high quality undergrad student body within the field. But I suppose that’s a different picture to consider.</p>
<p>Bio and English are top 5 in popularity at UM? Surprising.</p>
<p>I’m going to have to staunchly disagree with you about math in regards to “faculty very involved in undergraduate instruction.” My professors were pretty bad on the whole. Brilliant people, but definitely more focused on research, if anything.</p>
<p>My experience with the Mathematics faculty is that you have to be a committed Mathematician to get their attention. But when you do, given the excellent student to faculty ratio (like 3:1) and tiny classes (seldom more than 20 students), I hear the program is one of the best undergraduate programs in the nation.</p>
<p>Eh, possibly. I am certainly far from a “committed mathematician,” but would love to hear anecdotal evidence to that effect, as it would improve my opinion of the department. Definitely a good department regardless though – the difficulty level just forces you to put in the time to learn, and the professors are very brilliant and masters of their material (for the most part). But many are not too personable or great at teaching. Heavy accents compound the issue.</p>
<p>and just think, if you go into Chemistry, 5 years from now you can be a GSI ****ing off freshman</p>
<p>^^^^^Alexandre - thanks for the great listing! Say, what is the source of the rankings - not doubting, just more curious.</p>
<p>I am not personally surprised that the poli sci program is ranked where it is. I have more opportunities for educational enrichment than I know what to do with.</p>
<p>US News grad rankings are what he is using. As a history/poli sci double major, gotta love those rankings!</p>
<p>…I didn’t see Women’s Studies. Don’t tell me my Women’s Studies degree won’t mean anything!</p>
<p>Classics and Women’s Studies are also strong of course, but I do not have rankings for them, although Michigan is #3 in Gender and Literature (a subfield of English) and #4 in Women’s History (a subfield of History).</p>
<p>That is correct Andre, the source of my rankings is the 2011 edition of the USNWR Graduate Schools rankings, except for Anthropology and Philosophy, which are not ranked in the publication. For those two subjects, I relied on the NRC rankings that just came out.</p>