Best undergraduate program for Religious Studies???

hsmomstef
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:55:29 +0000

good suggestions – and some of the same colleges known for international relations. He wants to be able to take upper level courses in non-western traditions, but doesn’t want to attend a school with a particular focus (like Notre Dame or Brandeis).

So far, he is looking at these schools:

University of CA, Berkeley
University of Chicago
Columbia
Duke
Georgetown
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
Dartmouth
Tufts
Brown

plus the odd ball ones he is considering (St. John’s and Deep Springs)

with his safeties as University of Colorado, Boulder and Colorado College

His list is very top heavy – but he has excellent safeties, so he really doesn’t need schools that aren’t better than they are. His stats are strongs enough to be in the pool for the top schools and he knows it is a crap shoot.

Any of the schools on his list stand out for good or bad reasons? It seems to me that Emory has a very Christian slant to all religious studies, but we don’t know about the others. He is currently interested in International Relations, Middle-Eastern Studies and World Religions – don’t know if that will stay, but it has been his interests for about three years, with Religion being the main focus.