Best colleges for humanities PhD admissions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges that send most graduates on to get Ph.D.s in English, per capital:

1. Bryn Mawr
2. Hampshire
3. Carleton
4. University of Dallas
5. Swarthmore
6. Kenyon
7. Reed
8. Sarah Lawrence
9. Amherst
10. Oberlin
11. Haverford
12. Vassar
13. Williams
14. St. John's College
15. Beloit
16. Columbia
17. St. John's College
18. Wesleyan
19. Agnes Scott
20. Thomas Aquinas

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#English

I want to emphasize that English is VERY different than Comp lit. Comp lit requires proficiency and many languages typically at the grad level. The best preparation isn’t an English degree, but a multi-lingual degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not the answer you want, but as someone whose spouse has a PdH in history, I would not recommend this line of work AT ALL. My spouse landed a teaching gig 15 years ago. It was a tight market then, and things have only gotten worse. If your kid does pursue a PhD in the humanities, make sure they have a very clear understanding of how absolutely crappy the job market is. Sorry to be a wet blanket.

Congrats to your spouse getting for a job with just a PdH.

Huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are independently wealthy and she will not need to worry about money when choosing a career. Thanks for all your concern though.

A trust fund will provide a nice cushion for an adjunct salary, but it won't save your kid from a student body that can't be bothered to read books or write papers that aren't generated by chat gpt. You're naive if you think otherwise.

NP. Is this real? You’ve got to be joking…there’s no way the students at Swarthmore or Reed are refusing to read and using ChatGPT. I can see it for regular schools, but there’s got to be some intellectuals left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are independently wealthy and she will not need to worry about money when choosing a career. Thanks for all your concern though.

A trust fund will provide a nice cushion for an adjunct salary, but it won't save your kid from a student body that can't be bothered to read books or write papers that aren't generated by chat gpt. You're naive if you think otherwise.

NP. Is this real? You’ve got to be joking…there’s no way the students at Swarthmore or Reed are refusing to read and using ChatGPT. I can see it for regular schools, but there’s got to be some intellectuals left.

The trust fund will not guarantee a job at Swat or Reed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not the answer you want, but as someone whose spouse has a PdH in history, I would not recommend this line of work AT ALL. My spouse landed a teaching gig 15 years ago. It was a tight market then, and things have only gotten worse. If your kid does pursue a PhD in the humanities, make sure they have a very clear understanding of how absolutely crappy the job market is. Sorry to be a wet blanket.

Congrats to your spouse getting for a job with just a PdH.

Thanks for that laugh!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are independently wealthy and she will not need to worry about money when choosing a career. Thanks for all your concern though.

A trust fund will provide a nice cushion for an adjunct salary, but it won't save your kid from a student body that can't be bothered to read books or write papers that aren't generated by chat gpt. You're naive if you think otherwise.

NP. Is this real? You’ve got to be joking…there’s no way the students at Swarthmore or Reed are refusing to read and using ChatGPT. I can see it for regular schools, but there’s got to be some intellectuals left.

Uh, sadly, even top students using ChatGPT will become more common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are independently wealthy and she will not need to worry about money when choosing a career. Thanks for all your concern though.

A trust fund will provide a nice cushion for an adjunct salary, but it won't save your kid from a student body that can't be bothered to read books or write papers that aren't generated by chat gpt. You're naive if you think otherwise.

NP. Is this real? You’ve got to be joking…there’s no way the students at Swarthmore or Reed are refusing to read and using ChatGPT. I can see it for regular schools, but there’s got to be some intellectuals left.

The trust fund will not guarantee a job at Swat or Reed.

Especially when Reed or Swat can call a national search for an assistant professor in any humanities subject, get 1000+ apps, and get their picking of humanities PhDs from Princeton, Yale, and Uchicago, and also take up any strong Visiting Assistant Professors from peers like Pomona, Williams, etc.