<p>According to the NRC ranking of German departments, NYU comes in #26, which is pretty good.</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings in German](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area6.html]NRC”>NRC Rankings in German)</p>
<p>UNC and Duke recently merged German programs to create the largest German department in the country. Both would be reaches for you.</p>