<p>For example, John Hopkins University is known primarily for its medical program. I'd like to know which undergrad majors these colleges are known for excelling in because studying pre-med at JHU is probably significantly different from studying liberal arts there. Here are the colleges I'm interested in, but have no clue what their best majors are:</p>
<p>-Rice
-Cornell
-Columbia
-UPenn (I know their biggest thing is business, but is there anything else they are known for?)
-Duke
-Boston College
-Georgetown
-Northwestern</p>
<p>What Cornell is possibly more known for, rather than one major, is the diversity of its offerings ,the variety of the fields represented within its seven undergraduate colleges, graduate & professional schools.</p>
<p>Regarding specific programs, some particularly strong ones I think (could be wrong), are: sciences and engineering generally, various areas of the humanities, such as english, literature, languages and creative writing; architecture, landscape architecture, veterinary medicine, agriculture, human development, labor relations, and hotel administration. The sciences are strong generally, some noteworthy particular sub-areas include : physics, chemistry, astronomy, applied & engineering physics, materials science, operations research, computer science, nanotechnology, statistics, ecology & evolutionary biology. The undergraduate business program, and masters financial engineering program, appear to be improving to the point where they may be worth mentioning as well.</p>
<p>I think the biggest major at Johns Hopkins is international relations actually even though there are MANY pre-meds there. I suspect that big top-ranked universities like Duke and Northwestern etc. are more known for being excellent at everything and aren’t really known for one major. So you may need another way to narrow down. (size, location, conservative vs. liberal feel). And what if you change your major? I’m no expert on Penn but it’s not that it is mostly known for business-----it’s business school is #1 in the nation, I think, and it’s undergrad is only top ten, so the slight difference makes the business school more prominent.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answers…so to be more specific, I’m actually looking for the schools on that list I made above that have good pre-med (I know its not a major…) or medical science (like biology or chemsitry) fields…because that’s what I’m interested in, and I think I should’ve worded the original question differently.</p>
<p>Look at the graduate rankings of fields you’re interested in. They’re a fairly accurate assessment of how strong the undergraduate programs will be.</p>