Colleges that lean towards Humanities

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Anonymous wrote:St John's. Then a miscellaney of small Christian schools. Liberal arts elsewhere have the name, but very little of the substance. Autoethnography abounds.

I agree with this. There's a substantial number of small Christian schools that care very much about the liberal arts as historically defined, and that means they value the humanities.

An example is surprisingly hillsdale college- even the conservative “university of austin” has a great fully funded program on discourse in the classics (and I don’t respect that institution at all)

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Anonymous wrote:St John's. Then a miscellaney of small Christian schools. Liberal arts elsewhere have the name, but very little of the substance. Autoethnography abounds.

I agree with this. There's a substantial number of small Christian schools that care very much about the liberal arts as historically defined, and that means they value the humanities.

An example is surprisingly hillsdale college- even the conservative “university of austin” has a great fully funded program on discourse in the classics (and I don’t respect that institution at all)

Hillsdale's not technically Christian. It's conservative and draws a lot of Christians though.

Wheaton would be the exhibit A here (after St. Johns, if you want the Great Books and nothing else), but there are tons of examples.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale
Brown
Duke
UChicago
Dartmouth
Williams
Amherst
Davidson
Middlebury

Pluck off Williams, and this is a great list.

I’m old, but I have always looked at Williams to be a stronghold in certain humanities such as Art History. Are the students there not interested in the humanities anymore?

Not at all. Even art history enrollment is collapsing under a new generation more fascinated by math and economics. It's a good school, but it is not the place for the kind of student who struggles with lack of community in the humanities. Amherst has played the game a lot better and gotten a more diverse profile of student.

Williams is still great for art history. It’s just (with only slight exaggeration) every other kid is an econ or CS major, and every third kid is an econ major who is an athlete.

My kid was one of 20+ Art History majors who graduated last weekend. Lots of Williams students double major. I saw computer science/art majors; math/religion; chemistry/German; and chemistry/art, among many others.

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Anonymous wrote:St John's. Then a miscellaney of small Christian schools. Liberal arts elsewhere have the name, but very little of the substance. Autoethnography abounds.

I agree with this. There's a substantial number of small Christian schools that care very much about the liberal arts as historically defined, and that means they value the humanities.

An example is surprisingly hillsdale college- even the conservative “university of austin” has a great fully funded program on discourse in the classics (and I don’t respect that institution at all)

Hillsdale's not technically Christian. It's conservative and draws a lot of Christians though.

Wheaton would be the exhibit A here (after St. Johns, if you want the Great Books and nothing else), but there are tons of examples.

I think Hillsdale takes no federal money. Imagine that.

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Anonymous wrote:The Midwest LACs - Kenyon, Oberlin, Grinnell.

+1000

They are amazing for writing and humanities.

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Middlebury's Breadloaf school (english dept) is amazing!

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Harvard

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All the Ivies, UChicago

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This post is really useful as DC starts putting a list together with interest in the humanities.

I know OP asked about "top" schools, but so far identifying reach prospects has been easier. In early stages of research on possible safeties to create a balanced list, it's been harder to find less selective schools -- they seem to be currently focused on touting majors like business, communications and sports management and education and nursing, etc. Pitt was a fantastic recommendation and is on the list -- are there other schools known to retain a focus on humanities that could balance out a list?

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Richmond, Furman

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Anonymous wrote:What about Swarthmore?

Relatively high STEM (plus Econ) percentage.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale
Brown
Duke
UChicago
Dartmouth
Williams
Amherst
Davidson
Middlebury

Pluck off Williams, and this is a great list.

I’m old, but I have always looked at Williams to be a stronghold in certain humanities such as Art History. Are the students there not interested in the humanities anymore?

Not at all. Even art history enrollment is collapsing under a new generation more fascinated by math and economics. It's a good school, but it is not the place for the kind of student who struggles with lack of community in the humanities. Amherst has played the game a lot better and gotten a more diverse profile of student.

Williams is still great for art history. It’s just (with only slight exaggeration) every other kid is an econ or CS major, and every third kid is an econ major who is an athlete.

I’m not even sure if this is a slight exaggeration!

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Anonymous wrote:All the Ivies, UChicago

Not U Chicago anymore. There was an article about how they're cutting and reducing their humanities depts due to funding issues.

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Anonymous wrote:All the Ivies, UChicago

Not U Chicago anymore. There was an article about how they're cutting and reducing their humanities depts due to funding issues.

fwiw they are merging departments with fewer than 15 profs, which includes Germanic studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and South Asian languages and civilizations. Do you want to pay $400k for your child to major in Slavic languages?

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Anonymous wrote:All the Ivies, UChicago

Not U Chicago anymore. There was an article about how they're cutting and reducing their humanities depts due to funding issues.

fwiw they are merging departments with fewer than 15 profs, which includes Germanic studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and South Asian languages and civilizations. Do you want to pay $400k for your child to major in Slavic languages?

I wouldn’t want my kid majoring in any humanities subject, so the Slavic part is no more useless to me than a history degree. Nonetheless, I agree with your point that Chicago isn’t diminishing its humanities departments.