Which school has the best undergraduate English program?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I was curious to see which school has the best undergraduate English program. Does UVA or UNC have really good English programs? What about Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Penn?</p>

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<p>Any of the Ivy Leagues, Chicago, Hopkins, Duke, UCLA, Berkeley, UVa to name a few. There aren’t any undergrad rankings for English (that I can find…), so I would go by the graduate school rankings if you’re interested. I know that at Hopkins, at least, most of the undergrad classes are taught by grad school professors. Its probably the same for most of the other universities, as well.</p>

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<p>It may depend on your goal; JD and PhD are common English terminal programs. For PhD:</p>

<p>Number of future PhDs per 1000 graduates </p>

<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database</p>

<p>Number of Undergraduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database </p>

<p>1 Yale University 18
2 Swarthmore College 18
3 Amherst College 17
4 Bryn Mawr College 16
5 Bennington College 16
6 Reed College 15
7 Williams College 15
8 Oberlin College 13
9 Carleton College 13
10 Wesleyan University 13
11 St John’s College (both campus) 12
12 Pomona College 12
13 University of the South 11
14 Barnard College 11
15 Vassar College 11
16 Haverford College 11
17 Princeton University 10
18 Harvard University 10
19 University of Chicago 9
20 Sarah Lawrence College 9
21 Wellesley College 9
22 Beloit College 9
23 Columbia University in the City of New York 9
24 Brown University 9
25 Agnes Scott College 9
26 Smith College 8
27 Kenyon College 8
28 Kalamazoo College 8
29 Mount Holyoke College 8
30 University of Dallas 8
31 Stanford University 8
32 Davidson College 7
33 Hendrix College 7
34 Bard College 7
35 Earlham College 7
36 Grinnell College 7
37 Goucher College 7
38 Hampshire College 6
39 Dartmouth College 6
40 Occidental College 6
41 College of the Holy Cross 6
42 Middlebury College 6
43 Trinity University 6
44 Scripps College 6
45 College of Wooster 6
46 Colby College 6
47 Bowdoin College 6
48 Hollins College 6</p>

<p>This is a narrow measure, not necessarily of quality, but of results. It may simply reflect self-selection, or may reflect a popular major among schools with fewer majors. There are different ways to interpret this rough statistic.</p>