Help narrowing down colleges based on interests

Based on the nature of your interests, I think you would benefit from researching the academics of potential college choices from a wide perspective. Since Continental writers don’t appear to fall into a neat categorization, you will find that social thinkers of potential interest are covered across various departments. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Heidegger may be extensively included in a philosophy course on existentialism, for example, while an even broader social theorist such as Foucault might be emphasized in a sociology course. Even Freud — who would be unlikely to be a major topic in a philosophy class — can be considered to be a Continental philosopher in a sense.