Most Prestigious Universities in Humanities

Viator
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:49:03 +0000

HYP tend to be the standard in all fields. A more interesting discussion would be what other colleges have departments in the humanities that rival HYP. U of Chicago and Columbia have been mentioned, with some disagreement. Are any of the other Ivies particularly strong or weak in these fields?

I was also curious if the so called southern ivies (Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice) were as oriented/dedicated to their humanities departments as the elite northeast schools…

A few of you have mentioned Berkeley - is that because of Berkeley’s general university prestige or because their humanities departments have renown specifically (like their science departments)? I sort of had this impression that the older northeastern schools sort of kept a strong tradition in the “classical education” philosophy when it seems most powerhouse research universities focus more on science and other things.

Any schools outside of the top 10 that have a strong humanities tradition?