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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can use IPEDS to view colleges by their number of majors in a field. For example, Swarthmore graduated five "first majors" in history in a recent year:

https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Swarthmore&s=all&id=216287#programs[/quote]

[b]I would go deep on the faculty - who they are, how long-term they are, their research interests, etc.[/b]

I'm a flagship grad, as is my husband, but we both went to smaller grad programs.

[b]It's a problem when you have to take classes from a department chair or a small set of faculty that you don't vibe with. [/b] At a big school, you have lots of alternatives.  At a small school, it seems like high school 2.0 with only one person who teaches some particular thing.  And to get great scholarships to grad school, you absolutely need a few faculty members to write glowing letters.  So to me, alignment with the departmental faculty would be key.  If you can't understand or relate to their research areas, that's going to likely make their special classes kind of boring...senior seminars, fun electives, etc.[/quote]

+1. Good if you can get an idea of who you will be working with, because there often aren’t many options.[/quote]

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