It’s welcoming to all, that’s what the poster needs to know in terms of that angle.
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Yes, this is true. All of Fordham’s film facilities are located at Lincoln Center and while film courses are offered on both campuses, there are more film course offerings at Lincoln Center.
On the other hand, the Rose Hill (Bronx) has significantly more course offerings for an English major. A student who is majoring in English and minoring in film may be better situated at Rose Hill.
My son went to Fordham, was an English but also had an interest in Film. He did commute via the Ram Van to Lincoln Center for an occasional Film course. But he was not a double major or even a minor in film. If I had a student with a strong enough interest in film to plan on a double major or even a minor, I would meet with someone from the 2 departments to find out how they accommodate the two interests. For example, would such a student live at one campus but spend a semester or a year on the other campus to take full advantage of its offerings? I would see this as similar to a study abroad year - except that you can still maintain your ties to the other campus via easy Ram Van transportation, which runs day & night 7 days a week.
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Should you not have been familiar with it, this Princeton Review survey-based site may offer you further ideas:
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However, only 25 colleges are listed on that web page. Do you have to buy the book or something to get a larger list of colleges surveyed on this and other subjects?
Agreed that since the Rose Hill campus of Fordham is bigger, it has more English courses on offer. That said, the faculty at the Lincoln Center campus is very good. My LGBT+ son is not an English major/minor, but has taken a number of English classes as electives at LC and they were excellent. Very skilled, kind, and invested professors.
Both the RH and LC campuses are LGBTQ+ friendly, but the LC campus has a larger queer scene, especially the T.
No religious pressure.
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I’d assume LC is probably easier for taking advantage of the city’s punk scene,too; not sure how important that is in factoring in which campus. D19 loved the LC location.
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Again, while Fordham is a great thought, budget may be an issue. I’d recommend the OP run the NPC, look at merit aid available, and if price is workable, visit both campuses.
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The book does not provide deeper lists with respect to this type of category ranking. Nonetheless, these rankings typically include both a top ~25 and bottom ~25 for a particular attribute. From a social science perspective, PR may be capturing all the schools (of their 391) of two or more standard deviations with this method.
Definitely include SUNY Geneseo, New Paltz, and Purchase.
In the Twin Cities, Hamline, Macalester, Augsburg (with Mac the most queer-friendly and though small, in the middle of a city filled with students&things to do).
At UMN apply ASAP and apply to the Honors college.
(Same for Pitt.)
Northeastern has an English&Media studies double major:
Dickinson has very interesting English offerings and a very robust study abroad program
Including the opportunity to spend a year there
with Dickinson structuring your semesters with time in London, courses directly at a British university (UEA, topnotch for English- and direct immersion is not that common but very beneficial for English majors), and experiential learning opportunities. Or you can spend a semester combining London+UEA courses then a semester in Ireland.
You could also look for colleges that have study abroad in Edinburgh, a city that breathes literature - Scotland actually has a holiday/day off dedicated to a poet, literary festivals, etc. - in Particular American University and SUNY Purchase which are on your list. 
Wondering if this might be of interest
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However, for the other 341 not in the top/bottom 25, they do not tell you if one is closer to #26 or closer to #366, where there may be a significant difference between them.
There are also many colleges beyond the 391 that they survey.
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thank you so much for the recs!!! 
dickinson seems really cool and studying abroad would be awesome
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to everyone who has given me suggestions—i genuinely appreciate it so much. i’m feeling a lot more confident now and excited to do more research into all the schools i’ve been recommended. THANK YOU!!!
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You can study abroad from any school, even if that school doesn’t have a program of interest. Then you go through an affiliate or third party program. So study abroad is not a reason to pick a school IMHO. Many get cancelled - mine did at her school and Case Western and she ended up on a Nebraska one - and had she not signed up it would have cancelled
Your issue with Dickinson, like others is, can you afford it ?
You need to look at schools under $50k full pay like Mary Washington (was on the Princeton Review Top 25 for LGBTQ, CNU, Salisbury, etc.
Dickinson is great but may not be $50k. A Susquehanna or Washington College will give you better odds of hitting budget.
But list are still well above. Add schools that are below $50k either full price or with auto merit - or just assume you’ll be at SUNY - and nothing wrong with that !!
Wheaton College(Ma) is worth a look if you are considering some smaller schools. You would likely get a good amount of merit. They have a pretty accurate, easy price calculator on their website. Good luck!
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Just FYI, this can be not so very simple if the college doesn’t have a standard semester and dates don’t align, etc.….and some schools don’t make it as perfectly easy to transfer everything..
Also, traveling with people from your own school has advantages (though possibly disadvantages, I never thought about that deeply).
I agree it is rarely a reason to not apply to a school, but some schools are more friendly than others..
There’s summer - there’s something - yes, we had to get the CWRU (cancelled) and Nebraska coursework pre-approved for transfer.
I’m just noting - pick a school for the school itself. The study abroad will work itself out one way or another. There’s boatloads of affiliates like CIEE that most seem to use if they themselves don’t have.
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It can still work, though, if the culture of the college supports it. Carleton has trimesters, for example, so I think it’s typical to study abroad in the fall, when the misalignment between semesters and trimesters matters less. It’s easier to transfer credits if the program is approved by a student’s home college, but it doesn’t have to be run by that college. I tend to think that it’s better to travel with students who are from different schools (or even better, to integrate more fully in community in the country where you’re studying) so the study abroad experience is really different than the typical semester. My daughter has done it both ways: a short-term class abroad run by her school, with her professors, and a semester abroad program run by an international educational service, with students from a range of schools, attending classes at the university she’s visiting. Both have been fantastic experiences, but I think that if the school-run program (one class, one group, three weeks) had been a full semester, it would have felt too insular.
The most important thing for a student interested in studying abroad, I think, is to find a school where a majority of students do it. If that’s the case, you can be pretty assured that the school is well-equipped to help you make the right program work.
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Check out the Mosaics program at Dickinson for a very special interdisciplinary approach to learning. Some topics can include short trips abroad.
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Agree with this sentiment.
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I’ll disagree. Many majors don’t have study abroad opportunities - so if you’re at say, a big engineering school. And many publics don’t have a majority study abroad.
Less than 10% nationally go abroad and SUNY Oswego reports a 20% # (I can’t find an overall SUNY #) yet SUNY says all are welcome to go and like many colleges, they have faculty led, exchange, non-exchange, service learning and more over each term and even winter and summer.
If you rely on most go abroad, you limit yourself to elite, high end, pricey LACs.
So I’m not agreeing with this argument at all.
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