geneseo college creative writing

Admission to the Creative Writing track is highly selective. To obtain admission, students must submit an application, available from the department, together with a sample of their writing. The application deadline, announced each semester on the department website, falls before the beginning of pre-registration, approximately the seventh week of the semester. Students who declare a major in English/Literature will be changed to English/Creative Writing upon acceptance into the track.  

Program Learning Outcomes

1)   The ability to read texts closely

2)   The ability to write clear and effective prose in accordance with conventions of standard English

3)   The ability to write analytically about texts in accordance with the conventions of textual criticism

4)   An understanding of how criticism as a practice gives rise to questions about how to conduct that practice, questions that are constitutive of the discipline: e.g., questions concerning what we should read, why we should read, and how we should read.

5)   The ability to read texts in relation to history

6)   An understanding of how texts are related to social and cultural categories (e.g., race, ehtnicity, gender, sexuality, class, ability), enterprises (e.g., philosophy, science, and politics), and institutions (e.g., of religion, of education)

7)   An understanding of how language as a system and linguistic change over time inform literature as aesthetic object, expressive medium, and social document

8)   The ability to “join the conversation” that is always ongoing among critics and scholars regarding texts, authors, and topics engaging with secondary sources

9)   An in-depth understanding of a single author, a small group of authors, or a narowly-defined topic, theme, or issue

10)   An understanding of the differences between and the requirements of genre  (Creative Writing Track)

11)  Knowledge of craft and technique in genres under study  (Creative Writing Track)

12)  Proficiency at critiqueing peer and published work  (Creative Writing Track)

13)  Knowledge of elements, modes, and forms of chosen genre  (Creative Writing Track)

14)  The ability to incorporate criticism into revision of creative work  (Creative Writing Track)

15)   Proficiency at presenting work to readers in public readings, publication, or exhibits  (Creative Writing Track)

16)   An understanding of the process of revision, submission, publication  (Creative Writing Track)

17)   Knowledge of contemporary writers and literary journals  (Creative Writing Track)

General Education Requirements (30-46 Credits)

Prerequisite coursework may be required to satisfy certain General Education courses and will count as elective credit.

Total Credits Required to Complete Major: 44

Basic requirements: (24 credits).

• ENGL 201 - Foundations of Creative Writing Credit(s): 4
• ENGL 402 - Senior Seminar in Creative Writing Credit(s): 4

Literature Courses: (16 Credits)

• ENGL 203 - Reader and Text: (subtitle) Credit(s): 4

at least 3 additional courses in literature, one of which must be at the 400 level

Writing courses selected under advisement from the following: (20 Credits)

• ENGL 202 - Reading As a Writer: (subtitle) Credit(s): 4
• ENGL 301 - Advanced Poetry Workshop: (subtitle) Credit(s): 4
• ENGL 302 - Advanced Fiction Workshop: (subtitle) Credit(s): 4
• ENGL 305 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction Workshop: (subtitle) Credit(s): 4
• FMST 310 - Screenwriting Credit(s): 4
• ENGL 426 - Editing and Production Workshop Credit(s): 4
• Students must take at least 4 creative writing course with “workshop” in the title (selected from poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction) at the 300 level.
• ENGL 426 - Editing and Production Workshop    may be substituted for one of the required 300-level workshops.

Minimum Competence Requirement

A grade of C- or better is required for each of the following courses: all courses submitted in fulfillment of the 44 hour requirement for the English major.

Department Writing Requirement

For the English Major, at least 16 Credits must be at the 300-level or above All courses in English emphasize the skills of effective writing. In addition, all 400-level Literature courses teach students how to join the conversation.

English majors are strongly urged to study a foreign language and literature.

Outline/Advising Guide

For students who matriculated prior to fall 2022:, fall (15 credit hours).

ENGL 1__ Credit(s): 4

• INTD 105 - Writing Seminar: (subtitle) Credit(s): 3

N/ Credit(s): 4

R/ Credit(s): 4

Spring (15 Credit Hours)

Foreign Language Credit(s): 3

Second Year

ENGL 2__ Credit(s): 4

ENGL 3__ Credit(s): 4

• HUMN 220 - W/H/Western Humanities I Credit(s): 4 or
• HUMN 221 - W/H/Western Humanities II Credit(s): 4

Spring (16 Credit Hours)

ENGL 2__ Credit(s): 4 S/ Credit(s): 3 Foreign Language Credit(s): 3 U/ Credit(s): 3 F/ Credit(s): 3

Fall (14 Credit Hours)

ENGL 3__ Credit(s): 4 ENGL 3__ Credit(s): 4 F/ Credit(s): 3 S/ Credit(s): 3

ENGL 4__ Credit(s): 4 Elective Credit(s): 3 Elective Credit(s): 3 Elective Credit(s): 3 Elective Credit(s): 3

Fourth Year

ENGL 4_ Credit(s): 4 Elective Credit(s): 3 Elective Credit(s): 3 Elective Credit(s): 4

Elective Credit(s): 3

Elective Credit(s): 2

Total Credit Hours: 120

Note: Where no prerequisites apply, some variation in the order or semester in which courses are taken is possible. Students should consult their academic advisors for additional information.

🧭 The Guide SUNY Geneseo’s Writing Guide

The Guide is a writer’s resource aimed primarily at the SUNY Geneseo community. It is not a grammar or usage handbook, though its pages do treat some of the more common mechanical errors, wrestle with a few vexatious usage questions, and attempt to explode a few myths. The main purpose of The Guide is to set out, in very broad terms, basic principles of good composition for a particular genre of writing: the college essay.

Judgments about writing are necessarily bound up with aesthetic preferences—cultural, historical, and personal. In addition, judgments about academic writing inevitably reflect differences between disciplines. Even in a genre as narrow as the college essay, there is simply no single answer to the question, What is good writing? The Guide attempts to establish common ground for faculty and students at Geneseo, but it also represents individual and disciplinary diversity through its faculty and department style sheets, which as of 2008 reside on its new companion wiki . Geneseo faculty, staff, and administrators can obtain editing privileges on the wiki by emailing schacht at geneseo dot edu and requesting membership in the group writing-users .

Students should remember that an instructor’s style sheet or other requirements always take precedence over any advice offered in the main pages of The Guide.

The Guide first went online in 2000 . An extensive 2003 revision added expanded discussions of race and language, gender and language, and the politics of linguistic convention within an entirely new layout. However, a good deal of inelegant and outdated code lingered. The present, 2008, version complies with W3C standards and aims for maximum simplicity, flexibility, and navigability. The new wiki should also make The Guide more useful to faculty by enabling them to edit their own pages and contribute to pages on particular issues of grammar, usage, and punctuation .

The Guide ’s Creative Commons license permits you to copy, redistribute, transform, adapt, remix, and build on its content without restriction as long as you provide appropriate attribution to the authors and a link to the license.

As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.

Paul Schacht schacht at geneseo dot edu

Celia Easton easton at geneseo dot edu

• What is Good Writing?
• Audience and Purpose
• Organization
• Care and Imagination
• Lucidity, Simplicity, Directness
• Myths About Good Writing

Conventions

• Conventions of Writing
• Research and Writing
• Writing in a Discipline
• Grammar and Usage
• Making Improvements
• Writing Outside the Classroom
• Writing Exam Essays

Engage First-Year Students Through Creative Citation Instruction: Home

So many citation styles.

Most students arrive at college knowing two main citation styles: MLA and APA. Depending on the college class they take and research projects assigned, students will likely be exposed to many more discipline-specific citation styles. Knowing how a citation is composed of its various bibliographic components will be key in allowing students to transfer from one style to the next. Also, simply exposing students to the wide variety of styles they may be faced with could be an important primer for college.  

Deciphering Citations

In order for students to go from print bibliography (of relevant articles and books for their research) to full text of new sources of interest, they must first know how to READ a citation and understand what type of material they're looking at. A journal article? A book chapter? A book? A dissertation? Only when they know what type of source they're considering can they take the next steps to finding that material in full-text format.

Following are 1) a tutorial lesson, 2) a guide sheet to walk students through the process, and 3) a lesson plan where first-year students learned how to read citations and then access the material in full text.

• Finding materials within my library

In this first-year writing library lesson (the first of 3, each focused on a specific anthropological controversy), the professor asked me to make sure each student walked away with one scholarly article on the Margaret Mead/Derek Freeman controversy. With too many relevant sources to choose from, I figured the lesson would be over in 10 minutes. Instead, I chose to use the 75 minutes with the students to introduce them to various ways in which they could access many sources, and then they would have the power to choose.

• Mead/Freeman Controversy lesson notes
• Path to Research Success worksheet
• Citation: A brief introduction

• Why citations are important
• What are in-text citations?
• Using citations effectively

Putting Bibliographic Info in the Right Order

When students of an Anthropology class turned in preliminary bibliographies to me, prior to a library lesson, I was surprised to see the same course-required source written by 6 different students in 6 different ways. I asked the students what citation tool(s) they were using to generate the citation. This lead us to a close examination of the Purdue OWL site and practice writing out proper citations for the various sources in the preliminary bibliographies.

Cutting Up Citations

A low-tech way to teach students about citations is to cut up a citation(s) into its components and then have students work together to assemble the citation. Students will consult a citation manual to reassemble the citation and glue it onto a piece of paper. Then, they need to label each component of the citation. This point of this exercise is to familiarize students with the citation manual and citation components. The exercise can done individually or as a group. 

The same exercise has been done through the use of Padlet , where the teacher adds in all of the necessary citation components (including punctuation) for a variety of material types and students move those pieces around to formulate an accurate citation. I have used this technique to show ANTH 100 students how to construct a citation in American Anthropologist style.

Identifying Parts of a Citation

It is common for college students to be unfamiliar with the parts of a citation. This means they often do not know where the information they need is located on the materials they examine. 

A simple and fast way to engage students in citations is to get them to label a physical item (using sticky notes). I give them a list of the items they need to identify and give them 5 minutes to do so.

After students have labeled their materials, I review what they should have labeled to make sure everyone is on the same page. Then, I provide the students with a citation guide and have them practice creating a citation in the style of their professor's preference.

This exercise can be used with any citation style and it can help emphasize that citations contain the same information, but they are formatted differently.

Find and Cite

This is a simple exercise that requires students to find two sources I provide them, but they do not have the complete citation. This means they have to figure out how to find the item. Once they find the sources, they must cite each item in APA format (or any other style the professor requests). This exercise reinforces the importance of writing down detailed notes about sources when researching a topic and how to use a citation manual. 

• Find and Cite Activity

Citation Relay!

I learned about the Citation Relay game from the LOEX 2014 conference. I have adapted the lesson to fit my teaching circumstance, but it is hands-down one of my students favorite citation activities!

Overview of the Citation Relay: 

• Break the class into two large groups, then have each group broken down into smaller groups of 2-3 students. Each group will get a different item they need to cite.
• When I say "go," each sub-group opens an envelop containing an item to cite. You can have them cite a book, article, and newspaper, or include things like Tweets or YouTube videos for an extra challenge.
• Students work with their sub-groups to figure out what the item is and how to cite it. 
• Once the students have created the citation, they run up to the white board and write down their citation. When they have it written down, they ring a bell.
• I check the citation. If the citation contains any errors, I let the students know how many errors are present. At this point, they may consult with their entire team.
• This process continues until each sub-group has completed their citation. The team who gets all of the citations correct wins!

A couple of notes

• Make sure to review what citations are, formatting rules, and how to use a citation guide before the activity.
• Review the students' sources afterwards; I have the students lead the discussion.
• Citation Relay Directions
• Original Inspiration

Evaluating Citation (Management) Tools

While students need to understand how to use citation manuals, it is beneficial to familiarize them with tools they can use to assist with the creation of their citations. Rather than deny the fact that students use citation generators, why not fold them into your instruction? 

For this exercise, I give students an article and I have them try using different citation generators. The purpose of this exercise is to help students understand that these tools exist and to reinforce that these tools are not always accurate.

Worksheet for Evaluating Citations

A similar pre-populated chart for tools used in higher education can look like this:

Author Information

This LIbGuide was created by

Kimberly D. Hoffman , Head of Outreach, Learning, and Research Services, University of Rochester

[email protected]

Brandon West , Head of Reference & Instructional Services, SUNY Geneseo

[email protected]

for the High School & College Librarians: Collaborating for Student Success Conference on May 24, 2017 at SUNY Brockport.

• Last Updated: May 24, 2017 12:57 PM
• URL: https://library.geneseo.edu/citationlessonplans

Fraser Hall Library | SUNY Geneseo

Fraser Hall 203

Milne Building Renovation Updates

Connect With Us!

Geneseo Authors Hall preserves over 90 years of scholarly works.

KnightScholar Services facilitates creation of works by the SUNY Geneseo community.

IDS Project is a resource-sharing cooperative.

CIT HelpDesk

Writing learning center (wlc).

Fraser Hall 208

• Programs in English
• Faculty and Staff
• Student Organizations
• What Can I Do with My Degree?
• Leadership & Hands-On Learning
• Awards and Scholarships

Department of English

Writing contest, 2023 writing contest, entries were due by 11:59 p.m. on monday, april 10, 2023.

Submit your best work written in 2022 or 2023 for the annual Geneseo Writing Awards  in the following categories:

Research Paper

Critical essay, first-year critical writing: intd 105, essay in diversity studies, self-reflective writing, drama and screenwriting, literary fiction, creative non-fiction.

• Submit 2023 Geneseo Writing Contest entries online at go.geneseo.edu/writingcontest by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 10. As submissions will be judged anonymously, entrants’ names cannot appear on the manuscripts .
• Upload your entry as a Word doc(x), PDF, or video file. Please do not share a Google doc, since it cannot be composed or reviewed anonymously. 
• You may submit separate entries to more than one contest category, but you may submit only one entry in any category. No simultaneous submissions: you cannot submit the same piece of work to more than one category in the contest.
• Although the English Department organizes the Writing Contest, it is open to any current Geneseo student, and we strongly encourage you to submit excellent writing on any subject, from any academic program.
• In 2023, winners of the Writing Contest will be honored at the English Department awards ceremony on Study Day, Thursday, May 11.
• Please address any questions to Dr. Gillian Paku, Director of the Writing Learning Center: [email protected] .

Contest Categories

This category recognizes student work engaging systematically and centrally with research. The research can be primary (e.g., archival or exhibit sources) and/or secondary (e.g., scholarly or argument sources). Include citations and a formatted bibliography in any standard documentation style. The maximum length of the body of the essay is ten pages, double-spaced in a 12-point font; bibliography pages are extra. If you submit an essay that was already submitted for classwork, you are encouraged to edit it appropriately for readers who are not your class instructor. You can excerpt a longer essay, but do not exceed the contest page limit.

Entries in this category focus upon literary texts, individual case studies, and other closely interpreted documents. Although such entries might include research elements, research is not the central focus. The maximum length of essays in this category is ten pages, double-spaced in a 12-point font. If you submit an essay that was already submitted for classwork, you are encouraged to edit it appropriately for readers who are not your class instructor. You can excerpt a longer essay, but do not exceed the contest page limit.

Essays in this category should be a version of work submitted in Spring 2022, Fall 2022, or Spring 2023 for a section of INTD 105, our first-year critical writing and thinking course. The maximum length of the body of the essay is ten pages, double-spaced in a 12-point font; any bibliography pages are extra. If you submit an essay that was already submitted for classwork, you are encouraged to edit it appropriately for readers who are not your class instructor. You can excerpt a longer essay, but do not exceed the contest page limit.

Essays in this category should engage with Geneseo’s definition of diversity in our mission statement: “Diversity at Geneseo is defined in part as differences in individuals that are manifested in their race, ethnicity, national origin, language heritage, world-view, religion, gender, sexual orientation, class, physical ability, learning style, geographic background, mental health, age, and relationship status.”

The maximum length of the body of the essay is ten pages, double-spaced in a 12-point font; any bibliography pages are extra. If you submit an essay that was already submitted for classwork, you are encouraged to edit it appropriately for readers who are not your class instructor. You can excerpt a longer essay, but do not exceed the contest page limit.

The Essay in Diversity Studies honors a former Geneseo faculty member and is awarded as the Jérome de Romanet de Beaune Award for an Essay in Diversity Studies.

The format of entries in this new category is flexible, but all submissions should connect academic coursework, broadly defined, to students' reflections on themselves as dynamic learners. Self-reflective writing often demonstrates improved metacognitive awareness of a discipline’s major “moves,” connects thoughts and feelings to an improved ability to generalize and transfer insights to a new situation, or leads to “socially responsible and globally aware citizens” (Geneseo mission statement). The maximum length of the body of the essay is ten pages (adapted from the original format where necessary), double-spaced in a 12-point font; bibliography pages are extra. If you submit an essay that was already submitted for classwork, you are encouraged to edit it appropriately for readers who are not your class instructor. You can excerpt a longer essay, but do not exceed the contest page limit.

Entries in this category can include a play, screenplay, or teleplay of a maximum of twenty pages. Entries should prioritize scripted speech rather than excessive improvisation,  choreography, or stage directions. If you submit a piece that was already submitted for classwork, you are encouraged to edit it appropriately for readers who are not your class instructor.

Please enter ONLY ONE POEM in this category, formatted as you please. Maximum length is ten pages.

The maximum length of entries in this category is twenty pages, double-spaced in a 12-point font. If you submit a piece that was already submitted for classwork, you are encouraged to edit it appropriately for readers who are not your class instructor.

• < Previous

Home > Milne Library Publishing > Milne Open Textbooks > 10

Milne Open Textbooks

Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence

Amy Guptill , State University of New York College at Brockport

Download Full Text (884 KB)

Download Writing-in-College-1680793472.epub (425 KB)

Description

Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text in other writing-intensive classes. It provides a friendly, down-to-earth introduction to professors’ goals and expectations, demystifying the norms of the academy and how they shape college writing assignments. Each of the nine chapters can be read separately, and each includes suggested exercises to bring the main messages to life.

Students will find in Writing in College a warm invitation to join the academic community as novice scholars and to approach writing as a meaningful medium of thought and communication. With concise discussions, clear multidisciplinary examples, and empathy for the challenges of student life, Guptill conveys a welcoming tone. In addition, each chapter includes Student Voices: peer-to-peer wisdom from real SUNY Brockport students about their strategies for and experiences with college writing.

While there are many affordable writing guides available, most focus only on sentence-level issues or, conversely, a broad introduction to making the transition. Writing In College, in contrast, provides both a coherent frame for approaching writing assignments and indispensable advice for effective organization and expression.

Read this text online. This text and the associated files were updated in 2023 to correct broken hyperlinks.

9781942341215

Publication Date

Open SUNY Textbooks

Geneseo, NY

academic writing, composition, freshman, research, scholarly writing, writing

• Disciplines

Communication | English Language and Literature

Using this text? We'd love to know more about you: fill out this short questionnaire to let us know !

Recommended Citation

Guptill, Amy, "Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence" (2016). Milne Open Textbooks . 10. https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/oer-ost/10

Creative Commons License

Since November 05, 2018

Included in

Communication Commons , English Language and Literature Commons

• Collections

Advanced Search

• Notify me via email or RSS

Author Corner

• Milne Open Textbooks Website
• Fraser Hall Library
• SUNY Geneseo

Home | About | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement

Privacy Copyright

35 Best Colleges for Creative Writing – 2024

April 12, 2024

Bookworms and aspiring writers can pursue an undergraduate degree in creative writing where they will tackle coursework covering the reading and writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry as well as the theory and history of the craft. While becoming the next J.K Rowling, Stephen King, or Margaret Atwood may be the goal, holders of creative writing degrees end up on a variety of career paths. This can include: publishing, editing, journalism, web content management, advertising, or for those who “make it” as writers—the next generation of literary superstars. Our list of Best Colleges for Creative Writing goes beyond the most famous writer factories like the University of Iowa and Columbia University, providing you with 35 institutions known for their stellar programs in this field.

Finally, note that although some of the colleges featured below do not offer a formal major in creative writing, their undergraduate offerings in this subject area are so strong that they warrant inclusion on our list.

Methodology 

Click here to read our methodology for the Best Colleges for creative writing.

Best Creative Writing Colleges

Here’s a quick preview of the first ten creative writing institutions that made our list. Detailed profiles and stats can be found when you scroll below.

1) Columbia University

2) Brown University

3) Johns Hopkins University

4) University of Chicago

5) Washington University in St Louis

6) Emory University

7) Stanford University

8) Northwestern University

9) Duke University

10) Yale University

All of the schools profiled below have stellar reputations in the field of creative writing and commit substantial resources to undergraduate education. For each of the best colleges for creative writing, College Transitions will provide you with—when available—each school’s:

• Cost of Attendance
• Acceptance Rate
• Median  SAT
• Median  ACT
• Retention Rate
• Graduation Rate

We will also include a longer write-up of each college’s:

• Academic Highlights – Includes facts like student-to-faculty ratio, average class size, number of majors offered, and most popular majors.
• Professional Outcomes – Includes info on the rate of positive outcomes, companies employing alumni, and graduate school acceptances.

Columbia University

• New York, NY

Academic Highlights: Columbia offers 100+ unique areas of undergraduate study as well as a number of pre-professional and accelerated graduate programs.  Class sizes at Columbia are reasonably small and the student-to-faculty ratio is favorable; however, in 2022, it was revealed that the university had been submitting faulty data in this area. It is presently believed that 58% of undergraduate courses enroll 19 or fewer students. The greatest number of degrees are conferred in the social sciences (22%), computer science (15%), engineering (14%), and biology (7%).

Professional Outcomes: Examining the most recent graduates from Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, 73% had found employment within six months, and 20% had entered graduate school. The median starting salary for graduates of Columbia College/Columbia Engineering is above $80,000. Many graduates get hired by the likes of Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Google, Citi, McKinsey, and Microsoft.

• Enrollment: 8,832
• Cost of Attendance: $89,587
• Median SAT: 1540
• Median ACT: 35
• Acceptance Rate: 4%
• Retention Rate: 98%
• Graduation Rate: 95%

Brown University

• Providence, RI

Academic Highlights: Students must choose one of 80+ “concentration programs,” but there are no required courses. Class sizes tend to be small—68% have fewer than twenty students—and 35% are comprised of nine or fewer students. Biology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering are among the most popular areas of concentration at Brown; however, it is hard to distinguish any one program, because Brown possesses outstanding offerings across so many disciplines.

Professional Outcomes: Soon after receiving their Brown diplomas, 69% of graduates enter the world of employment. Companies employing the greatest number of Brown alums include Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Morgan Stanley, Apple, McKinsey & Company, and Bain & Company. The Class of 2022 saw 27% of graduates go directly into graduate/professional school. Right out of undergrad, Brown students boasted an exceptional 81% admission rate to med school and an 81% admission rate to law school.

• Enrollment: 7,639
• Cost of Attendance: $84,828
• Median SAT: 1530
• Acceptance Rate: 5%
• Retention Rate: 99%
• Graduation Rate: 96%

Johns Hopkins University

• Baltimore, MD

Academic Highlights: With 53 majors as well as 51 minors, JHU excels in everything from its bread-and-butter medical-related majors to international relations and dance. Boasting an enviable 6:1 student-to-faculty ratio and with 78% of course sections possessing an enrollment under 20, face time with professors is a reality. Many departments carry a high level of clout, including biomedical engineering, chemistry, English, and international studies. Biology, neuroscience, and computer science, which happen to be the three most popular majors, can also be found at the top of the national rankings.

Professional Outcomes: The Class of 2022 saw 94% of graduates successfully land at their next destination within six months of exiting the university; 66% of graduates entered the world of employment and a robust 19% went directly to graduate/professional school. The median starting salary across all majors was $80,000 for the Class of 2022. JHU itself is the most popular choice for graduate school. The next most frequently attended institutions included Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and MIT.

• Enrollment: 6,044
• Cost of Attendance: $86,065
• Acceptance Rate: 7%
• Retention Rate: 97%

University of Chicago

• Chicago, IL

Academic Highlights: There are 53 majors at UChicago, but close to half of all degrees conferred are in four majors: economics, biology, mathematics, and political science, all of which have particularly sterling reputations. Economics alone is the selection of roughly one-fifth of the undergraduate population. Over 75% of undergrad sections have an enrollment of nineteen or fewer students, and undergraduate research opportunities are ubiquitous as 80% of students end up working in a research capacity alongside a faculty member.

Professional Outcomes: On commencement day, 99% of the Class of 2023 were employed or continuing their education. Business and financial services (30%) and STEM (12%) were the two sectors that scooped up the most graduates, but public policy and consulting were also well-represented. The most popular employers of recent grads include Google, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, Bank of America, Citi, and Accenture. For those heading to grad school, the top seven destinations are Yale, Columbia, Penn, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins.

• Enrollment: 7,653 (undergraduate); 10,870 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $89,040

Washington University in St. Louis

• St. Louis, MO

Academic Highlights : WashU admits students into five schools, many of which offer nationally recognized programs: Arts & Sciences, the Olin School of Business, the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and the Art of Architecture programs housed within the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. The most commonly conferred degrees are in engineering (13%), social sciences (13%), business (13%), biology (11%), and psychology (10%). 66% of classes have fewer than 20 students, and over one-quarter have single-digit enrollments. 65% double major or pursue a minor.

Professional Outcomes: The Class of 2022 sent 52% of grads into the workforce and 28% into graduate and professional schools. Companies employing the highest number of WashU grads feature sought-after employers such as Amazon, Bain, Boeing, Deloitte, Google, IBM, Goldman Sachs, and Microsoft. Of the employed members of the Class of 2022 who reported their starting salaries, 79% made more than $60k. The universities welcoming the largest number of Bears included the prestigious institutions of Caltech, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Stanford.

• Enrollment: 8,132 (undergraduate); 8,880 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $83,760
• Median ACT: 34
• Acceptance Rate: 11%
• Retention Rate: 96%
• Graduation Rate: 93%

Emory University

• Atlanta, GA

Academic Highlights: This midsize university offers a diverse array of majors (80+) and minors (60+), and 30% of Emory students pursue more than one area of study. Over half of Emory’s student body works directly with a faculty member on academic research and 58% of courses have class sizes of under twenty students. Ultimately, the greatest number of students go on to earn degrees in the social sciences (15%), biology (14%), business (14%), health professions (12%), and mathematics (9%).

Professional Outcomes: Shortly after graduation, 66% of 2022 grads were already employed, and 96% had arrived at their next destination. The top employers of recent Emory grads include Deloitte, Epic, ScribeAmerica, Meta, Morgan Stanley, and Cloudmed. Graduates of the Goizueta Business School found strong starting salaries with an average of $81k.  In the last few years, multiple Emory grads/alums received acceptance letters from the following top law schools like Columbia, Berkeley, and Georgetown. Med school acceptances included Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Vanderbilt.

• Enrollment: 7,101
• Cost of Attendance: $83,702
• Median SAT: 1500
• Median ACT: 33
• Retention Rate: 95%
• Graduation Rate: 90%

Stanford University

• Palo Alto, CA

Academic Highlights: Stanford has three undergraduate schools: the School of Humanities & Sciences, the School of Engineering, and the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences. 69% of classes have fewer than twenty students, and 34% have a single-digit enrollment. Programs in engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, international relations, and economics are arguably the best anywhere. In terms of sheer volume, the greatest number of degrees are conferred in the social sciences (17%), computer science (16%), engineering (15%), and interdisciplinary studies (13%).

Professional Outcomes: Stanford grads entering the working world flock to three major industries in equal distribution: business/finance/consulting/retail (19%); computer, IT (19%); and public policy and service, international affairs (19%). Among the companies employing the largest number of recent grads are Accenture, Apple, Bain, Cisco, Meta, Goldman Sachs, Google, McKinsey, Microsoft, and SpaceX. Other companies that employ hundreds of Cardinal alums include LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Airbnb. Starting salaries for Stanford grads are among the highest in the country.

• Enrollment: 8,049 (undergraduate); 10,236 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $87,833

Northwestern University

• Evanston, IL

Academic Highlights : Northwestern is home to six undergraduate schools, including Medill, which is widely regarded as one of the country’s best journalism schools. The McCormick School of Engineering also achieves top rankings, along with programs in economics, social policy, and theatre. The social sciences account for the greatest number of degrees conferred (19%), followed by communications/journalism (13%), and engineering (11%). 45% of classes have nine or fewer students enrolled; 78% have fewer than twenty enrollees. 57% of recent grads had the chance to conduct undergraduate research.

Professional Outcomes: Six months after graduating, 69% of the Class of 2022 had found employment and 27% were in graduate school. The four most popular professional fields were consulting (18%), engineering (18%), business/finance (16%), and communications/marketing/media (13%). Employers included the BBC, NBC News, The Washington Post , NPR, Boeing, Google, IBM, Deloitte, PepsiCo, Northrop Grumman, and Goldman Sachs. Across all majors, the average starting salary was $73k. Of those headed straight to graduate school, engineering, medicine, and business were the three most popular areas of concentration.

• Enrollment: 8,659 (undergraduate); 14,073 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $91,290
• Graduation Rate: 97%

Duke University

Academic Highlights: The academic offerings at Duke include 53 majors, 52 minors, and 23 interdisciplinary certificates. Class sizes are on the small side—71% are nineteen or fewer, and almost one-quarter are less than ten. A stellar 5:1 student-to-faculty ratio helps keep classes so reasonable even while catering to five figures worth of graduate students. Computer Science is the most popular area of concentration (11%), followed by economics (10%), public policy (9%), biology (8%), and computer engineering (7%).

Professional Outcomes: At graduation, approximately 70% of Duke diploma-earners enter the world of work, 20% continue into graduate schools, and 2% start their own businesses. The industries that attract the largest percentage of Blue Devils are tech (21%), finance (15%), business (15%), healthcare (9%), and science/research (6%). Of the 20% headed into graduate school, a hefty 22% are attending medical school, 18% are in PhD programs, and 12% are entering law school. The med school acceptance rate is 85%, more than twice the national average.

• Enrollment: 6,640
• Cost of Attendance: $85,238
• SAT Range: 1490-1570
• ACT Range: 34-35
• Acceptance Rate: 6%

Yale University

• New Haven, CT

Academic Highlights: Yale offers 80 majors, most of which require a one- to two-semester senior capstone experience. Undergraduate research is a staple, and over 70% of classes—of which there are over 2,000 to choose from—have an enrollment of fewer than 20 students, making Yale a perfect environment for teaching and learning. Among the top departments are biology, economics, global affairs, engineering, history, and computer science. The social sciences (26%), biology (11%), mathematics (8%), and computer science (8%) are the most popular areas of concentration.

Professional Outcomes: Shortly after graduating, 73% of the Yale Class of 2022 had entered the world of employment and 18% matriculated into graduate programs. Hundreds of Yale alums can be found at each of the world’s top companies including Google, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, Morgan Stanley, and Microsoft. The most common industries entered by the newly hired were finance (20%), research/education (16%), technology (14%), and consulting (12%). The mean starting salary for last year’s grads was $81,769 ($120k for CS majors). Nearly one-fifth of students immediately pursue graduate school.

• Enrollment: 6,590 (undergraduate); 5,344 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $87,705
• Graduation Rate: 98%

Hamilton College

• Clinton, NY

Academic Highlights: The student-to-faculty ratio is 9:1, and without any pesky graduate students to get in the way, face time with professors is a regular occurrence. In fact, 28% of all classes have nine or fewer students; 72% have nineteen or fewer. Economics, government, and biology are among the strongest and most popular majors; other standout programs include public policy, mathematics, and environmental studies. Thirty percent of students earn social science degrees, with biology (13%), visual and performing arts (9%), physical science (7%), and foreign languages (7%) next in line.

Professional Outcomes: Examining the 491 graduates in Hamilton’s Class of 2022, an enviable 97% wasted no time landing jobs, graduate school acceptances, or fellowships. The most commonly entered industries were finance (17%), education (13%), business (12%), and science/tech (11%). Only 17% of 2022 graduates went directly into an advanced degree program. In one recent year, 33% of Hamilton grads were studying a STEM field, 22% were in the social sciences, 17% pursued a health care degree, and 5% went to law school.

• Enrollment: 2,075
• Cost of Attendance: $82,430
• Median SAT: 1490
• Acceptance Rate: 12%
• Graduation Rate: 92%

Princeton University

• Princeton, NJ

Academic Highlights: 39 majors are available at Princeton. Just under three-quarters of class sections have an enrollment of 19 or fewer students, and 31% have fewer than ten students. Princeton is known for its commitment to undergraduate teaching, and students consistently rate professors as accessible and helpful. The Engineering Department is widely recognized as one of the country’s best, as is the School of Public and International Affairs.

Professional Highlights: Over 95% of a typical Tiger class finds their next destination within six months of graduating. Large numbers of recent grads flock to the fields of business and engineering, health/science, & tech. Companies presently employing hundreds of Tiger alumni include Google, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, McKinsey & Company, Morgan Stanley, IBM, and Meta. The average salary ranges from $40k (education, health care, or social services) to $100k (computer/mathematical positions). Between 15-20% of graduating Tigers head directly to graduate/professional school.

• Enrollment: 5,604 (undergraduate); 3,238 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $86,700

Carnegie Mellon University

• Pittsburgh, PA

Academic Highlights: There are a combined 80+ undergraduate majors and 90 minors available across the six schools. Impressively, particularly for a school with more graduate students than undergrads, CMU boasts a 6:1 student-to-faculty ratio and small class sizes, with 36% containing single digits. In a given school year, 800+ undergraduates conduct research through the University Research Office. The most commonly conferred degrees are in engineering (21%), computer science (16%), mathematics (12%), business (10%), and visual and performing arts (9%).

Professional Outcomes: By the end of the calendar year in which they received their diplomas, 66% of 2022 grads were employed, and 28% were continuing to graduate school. The companies that have routinely scooped up CMU grads include Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Accenture, McKinsey, and Deloitte. With an average starting salary of $105,194, CMU grads outpace the average starting salary for a college grad nationally. Of those pursuing graduate education, around 20% typically enroll immediately in PhD programs.

• Enrollment: 7,509
• Cost of Attendance: $84,412

University of Iowa

• Iowa City, IA

Academic Highlights: 200+ undergraduate majors, minors, and certificate programs are available across eight colleges, including the Tippie College of Business, which has a very strong reputation. The most commonly conferred degree is business (24%), with parks and recreation (10%), social sciences (8%), health professions (8%), engineering (7%), and communication & journalism (5%) next in popularity. Over half of its undergraduate sections enroll 19 or fewer students, and 30% of undergrads conduct or assist research.

Professional Outcomes: 96% of Class of 2022 grads found their first job or advanced degree program within six months of receiving their diploma. The most commonly entered industries were healthcare (23%), entertainment/the arts (14%), finance and insurance (11%), and marketing/PR (10%). Companies that employ hundreds of alumni include Wells Fargo, Collins Aerospace, Principal Financial Group, Amazon, Accenture, and Microsoft. The median salary for 2022 grads was $50,000. 28% of recent graduates went directly into graduate school; 76% remained at the University of Iowa.

• Enrollment: 22,130 (undergraduate); 7,912 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $28,846-$32,259 (in-state); $50,809-$54,822 (out-of-state)
• Median SAT: 1240
• Median ACT: 25
• Acceptance Rate: 85%
• Retention Rate: 89%
• Graduation Rate: 73%

Emerson College

Academic Highlights: All 26 majors offered by the school have some element of performance or artistry and include highly unique academic concentrations such as comedic arts, sports communication, and musical theater. Emerson has a 15:1 student-to-faculty ratio and 69% of courses seat fewer than 20 students. The Journalism and Communications Studies programs rank among the top in the country. By sheer popularity, the top majors are film/video production, journalism, marketing, theater arts, and creative writing.

Professional Outcomes: Within six months of leaving Emerson, 61% of recent grads were employed, 4% were enrolled in graduate school, and 35% were still seeking their next landing spot. Top employers include the Walt Disney Company, Warner Media, Sinclair Broadcast Group, and CNN. The average full-time salary for employed grads is $40,255. Of those entering a master’s program, the bulk stay put, pursuing a master’s at Emerson in an area like writing for film and television, creative writing, or journalism.

• Enrollment: 4,149
• Cost of Attendance: $73,000
• Median SAT: 1360
• Median ACT: 31
• Acceptance Rate: 43%
• Retention Rate: 86%
• Graduation Rate: 77%

University of Southern California

• Los Angeles, CA

Academic Highlights : There are 140 undergraduate majors and minors within the Dornsife College of Arts & Sciences alone, the university’s oldest and largest school. The Marshall School of Business, Viterbi School of Engineering, and programs in communication, the cinematic arts, and the performing arts are highly acclaimed. Popular areas of study are business (22%), social sciences (11%), visual and performing arts (11%), communications/journalism (9%), and engineering (8%). Most courses enroll 10-19 students, and USC does an excellent job facilitating undergraduate research opportunities.

Professional Outcomes: 96% of undergrads experience positive postgraduation outcomes within six months of earning their degree. The top five industries entered were finance, consulting, advertising, software development, and engineering; the median salary across all majors is an astounding $79k. Presently, between 300 and 1,500 alumni are employed at each of Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, and Meta. Graduate/professional schools enrolling the greatest number of 2022 USC grads include NYU, Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford, Pepperdine, and UCLA.

• Enrollment: 20,699 (undergraduate); 28,246 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $90,921
• Median SAT: 1510

Cornell University

Academic Highlights: A diverse array of academic programs includes 80 majors and 120 minors spread across the university’s seven schools/colleges. Classes are a bit larger at Cornell than at many other elite institutions. Still, 55% of sections have fewer than 20 students. Most degrees conferred in 2022 were in computer science (17%), engineering (13%), business (13%), and biology (13%). The SC Johnson College of Business houses two undergraduate schools, both of which have phenomenal reputations.

Professional Outcomes: Breaking down the graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences, the largest school at Cornell, 68% entered the workforce, 28% entered graduate school, 1% pursued other endeavors such as travel or volunteer work, and the remaining 3% were still seeking employment six months after receiving their diplomas. The top sectors attracting campus-wide graduateswere financial services (18%), technology (17%), consulting (15%), and education (10%). Of the students from A&S going on to graduate school, 15% were pursuing JDs, 5% MDs, and 22% PhDs.

• Enrollment: 15,735
• Cost of Attendance: $88,150
• Median SAT: 1520

Oberlin College

• Oberlin, OH

Academic Highlights: Over 40 majors are available at Oberlin, which is an extremely strong provider of a liberal arts education. 79% of classes had 19 or fewer students enrolled. The greatest number of degrees conferred are typically in music, political science, biology, psychology, and history. The Conservatory of Music has a worldwide reputation, and programs in the natural sciences are similarly strong, leading to remarkable medical school acceptance rates and a high number of future PhD scientists and researchers.

Professional Outcomes: Within six months, 74% of recent grads found employment, 17% enrolled in graduate school, and just 5% were still seeking employment. Multiple recent grads were hired by Google, Netflix, and Sony Pictures. Over the last few years, multiple students have gone on to pursue advanced degrees at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, and the University of Michigan. Oberlin also has a reputation for churning out future PhDs and, is among the top 20 schools (per capita) across all disciplines in producing graduates who go on to earn their doctoral degrees.

• Enrollment: 2,986
• Cost of Attendance: $85,496
• Median SAT: 1400-1540
• Median ACT: 32-34
• Acceptance Rate: 33%
• Retention Rate: 87%
• Graduation Rate: 83%

University of Pittsburgh

Academic Highlights: Pitt admits freshmen to the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, the College of Business Administration, the Swanson School of Engineering, and the School of Nursing. Pitt’s engineering and business schools are top-rated and among the most commonly chosen fields of study. Premed offerings are also top-notch, with majors in the health professions (12%), biology (11%), psychology (9%), and computer science (9%) rounding out the list of most popular majors. Pitt has a strong 13:1 student-to-faculty ratio; 42% of sections have an enrollment of under twenty students.

Professional Outcomes: Within a few months of graduating, 94% of 2022 grads entered full-time employment or full-time graduate or professional school. Engineering, nursing, business, and information sciences majors had 73-86% employment rates while other majors tended to flock to graduate school in large numbers. Employers scooping up the highest number of grads in one recent year included the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (170), PNC (57), BNY Mellon (36), and Deloitte (19). Median starting salaries fluctuated between $37k-65k depending on major.

• Enrollment: 20,220 (undergraduate); 9,268 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $38,034-$43,254 (in-state); $56,400-$66,840 (out-of-state)
• Acceptance Rate: 50%
• Retention Rate: 92%
• Graduation Rate: 84%

Swarthmore College

• Swarthmore, PA

Academic Highlights: Swarthmore offers forty undergraduate programs and runs 600+ courses each academic year. Small, seminar-style courses are the norm—an outstanding 33% of sections enroll fewer than ten students, and 70% contain a maximum of nineteen students. Social science degrees are the most commonly conferred, accounting for 24% of all 2022 graduates. Future businessmen/women, engineers, and techies are also well-positioned, given Swat’s incredibly strong offerings in economics, engineering, and computer science.

Professional Outcomes: 68% of Class of 2022 grads entered the workforce shortly after graduation. Popular industries included education (17%), consulting (16%), and financial services (13%); the median starting salary was $60,000. Google is a leading employer of Swarthmore grads followed by Amazon, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and a number of the top universities.  18% of 2022 grads pursued advanced degrees, with 35% pursuing a PhD, 35% entering master’s programs, 10% heading to law school, and 7% matriculating into medical school.

• Enrollment: 1,625
• Cost of Attendance: $81,376
• Graduation Rate: 94%

Bryn Mawr College

• Bryn Mawr, PA

Academic Highlights: On the home campus, undergraduates can choose from 35 majors and 50 minors. Roughly 35% of the student body earns degrees in the natural sciences or mathematics, a figure four times the national average for women. By volume, the most popular majors are mathematics, psychology, biology, English, and computer science. An 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio leads to small class sizes with 74% of sections having fewer than twenty students, and 24% of sections enrolling nine students or fewer.

Professional Outcomes: One year after receiving their diplomas, 57% of Bryn Mawr graduates had found employment and a robust 28% had already entered graduate school. Most of the organizations employing the greatest number of alumni are universities and hospital systems, although Google, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, and Vanguard do employ a fair number of Bryn Mawr graduates. Among recent grads pursuing further education, 63% were in master’s programs, 13% were already working on their PhD, and 10% were in medical school.

• Enrollment: 1,409
• Cost of Attendance: $79,880
• Median SAT: 1400
• Acceptance Rate: 31%
• Retention Rate: 90%

Wellesley College

• Wellesley, MA

Academic Highlights: There are 50+ departmental and interdisciplinary majors. Thirty-six percent of course sections have single-digit enrollments while 77% have 19 or fewer students. In addition, opportunities for participation in research with faculty members abound. Most programs possess sterling reputations, including chemistry, computer science, neuroscience, and political science, but the Department of Economics shines most brightly, leading many into PhD programs and high-profile careers. Economics, biology, and computer science are the most frequently conferred degrees.

Professional Outcomes : Six months after graduating, 97% of the Class of 2022 had achieved positive outcomes. Of the 76% of grads who were employed, 24% were working in the finance/consulting/business fields, 17% in education, 17% in internet and technology & engineering, and 15% in healthcare/life sciences. Top employers included JPMorgan Chase, Google, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Goldman Sachs. The average starting salary for one recent cohort was a solid $63k. Of the 20% of 2022 grads who directly entered an advanced degree program, common schools attended included Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Stanford, MIT, and Emory.

• Enrollment: 2,447
• Cost of Attendance: $84,240
• Acceptance Rate: 14%

Colby College

• Waterville, ME

Academic Highlights: Offering 56 majors and 35 minors, Colby provides a classic liberal arts education with a high degree of flexibility and room for independent intellectual pursuits. A 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio is put to good instructional use as roughly two-thirds of courses have fewer than 19 students. Being a true liberal arts school, Colby has strengths across many disciplines, but biology, economics, and global studies draw especially high praise. These programs along with government and environmental science attract the highest number of students.

Professional Outcomes: Within six months of graduation, 93% of the Class of 2022 had either obtained jobs or were enrolled full-time in a graduate program. Eighteen percent of graduates enter the financial industry and large numbers also start careers in education, with government/nonprofit, STEM, and healthcare next in popularity. The Medical school acceptance rate over the past five years is 68%, nearly double the national average.

• Enrollment: 2,299
• Cost of Attendance: $86,720
• Average SAT: 1485
• Average ACT: 33
• Acceptance Rate: 8%
• Retention Rate: 93%
• Graduation Rate: 87%

University of Michigan

• Ann Arbor, MI

Academic Highlights: There are 280+ undergraduate degree programs across fourteen schools and colleges, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) enrolls the majority of students. The Ross School of Business offers highly rated programs in entrepreneurship, management, accounting, and finance. The College of Engineering is also one of the best in the country. By degrees conferred, engineering (15%), computer science (14%), and the social sciences (11%) are most popular. A solid 56% of classes have fewer than 20 students.

Professional Outcomes: Within three months of graduating, 89% of LSA grads are employed full-time or in graduate school, with healthcare, education, law, banking, research, nonprofit work, and consulting being the most popular sectors. Within three months, 99% of Ross grads are employed with a median salary of $90k. Top employers include Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, EY, Morgan Stanley, PwC, Deloitte, and Amazon.  Within six months, 96% of engineering grads are employed (average salary of $84k) or in grad school. General Motors, Ford, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta employ the greatest number of alumni.

• Enrollment: 32,695 (undergraduate); 18,530 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $35,450 (in-state); $76,294 (out-of-state)
• Median SAT: 1470
• Acceptance Rate: 18%

Bucknell University

• Lewisburg, PA

Academic Highlights: Over 60 majors and 70 minors are on tap across three undergraduate schools: the College of Arts & Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. Getting well-acquainted with your professors is easy with a 9:1 student-faculty ratio, and class sizes are reasonably small. The greatest number of degrees are conferred in the areas of the social sciences (26%), engineering (14%), business (14%), biology (11%), and psychology (9%).

Professional Outcomes: Nine months after graduation, 94% of the Class of 2022 had launched their careers or entered graduate school. Financial services is the most common sector for Bucknell grads to enter, attracting 24% of alumni. Across all disciplines, the average salary for a Class of 2022 grad was $69,540. Bucknell saw 18% of 2022 grads go directly into an advanced degree program. Bison alumni heading to graduate school predominantly pursue degrees in the medical field, social sciences, business, or engineering.

• Enrollment: 3,747
• Cost of Attendance: $80,890
• Median SAT: 1380
• Median ACT: 32
• Retention Rate: 91%

Haverford College

• Haverford, PA

Academic Highlights: Haverford offers 31 majors, 32 minors, 12 concentrations, and eleven consortium programs—areas of study that can be pursued at partner campuses. The school’s 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio and exclusive emphasis on undergraduate education lead to exceptionally intimate classes, 33% of which have fewer than 10 students, and 72% have fewer than 20. The most popular areas of study at Haverford include the social sciences (24%), biology (14%), psychology (11%), physical sciences (10%), computer science (9%), and mathematics (7%).

Professional Outcomes: Six months after leaving Haverford, 63% of the Class of 2022 had found employment, 19% had enrolled in graduate school, and 9% were still job hunting. Employers hiring multiple recent Haverford grads include Epic, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, the National Institutes of Health, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Of the 19% of 2022 grads who elected to continue their education, the most commonly entered fields of study were STEM (51%) and medicine/health (15%).

• Enrollment: 1,421
• Cost of Attendance: $87,180
• Graduation Rate: 91%

Colorado College

• Colorado Springs, CO

Academic Highlights: Rather than the typical semester schedule, Colorado College operates on the “block plan,” a series of eight three-and-half-week periods during which students take only one course. You won’t find a more intimate liberal arts college than CC. Classes have a cap of 25 students, and no more than a handful of courses exceed that figure. The average class consists of 16 students. In terms of sheer volume, most degrees are conferred in the social sciences (28%), biology (17%), natural resources and conservation (8%), and physical science (6%).

Professional Outcomes: Among the Class of 2022, an impressive 99% arrived successfully at their next destination within six months of earning their diploma. The largest number of graduates who pursue employment end up in the fields of education, technology, health care, the arts, and government.  The bachelor’s degree earned at Colorado College is unlikely to be the last degree a graduate will earn. Five years after graduation, the typical cohort sees 70-90% of its members having either completed or finishing an advanced degree.

• Enrollment: 2,180
• Cost of Attendance: $87,128
• Acceptance Rate: 16%
• Graduation Rate: 86%

Brandeis University

• Waltham, MA

Academic Highlights: Brandeis offers 43 majors, the most popular of which are in the social sciences (18%), biology (17%), business (10%), psychology (8%), public administration (8%), and computer science (7%). The student-faculty ratio is 11:1, and 60% of courses contain nineteen or fewer students. Departments with a particularly strong national reputation include economics, international studies, and sociology as well as all of the traditional premed pathways including biology, and chemistry.

Professional Outcomes: Within six months of graduation, 98% of the Class of 2022 had found their way to employment (59%), graduate school (35%), or another full-time activity like travel or volunteer work (4%). Members of the Class of 2022 were hired by Red Hat, Deloitte, Nasdaq, NPR, and McKinsey & Company. The average starting salary for recent grads is $61k. A large contingent of grads elects to continue at Brandeis for graduate school. Many others go to BU, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, and Yale.

• Enrollment: 3,687
• Cost of Attendance: $86,242
• Median SAT: 1440
• Acceptance Rate: 39%

Macalester College

• St. Paul, MN

Academic Highlights: Students can choose from roughly 40 majors and over 800 courses that are offered each academic year . Being an undergraduate-only institution, Macalester students enjoy the full benefits of the school’s 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio. The average class size is only 17 students, and 14% of class sections have single-digit enrollments. Macalester possesses strong offerings across many different disciplines. Programs in economics, international studies, and mathematics are among the best anywhere.

Professional Outcomes: Six months after graduating, 95% of the Macalester Class of 2022 had found employment, graduate school, or a fellowship. Employers of recent grads include ABC News, Google, Goldman Sachs, Dow Chemical Company, McKinsey & Company, the ACLU, the National Cancer Institute, and National Geographic . Across all sectors, the average starting salary for recent grads was above $62k. Sixty percent of Mac grads pursue an advanced degree within six years of earning their bachelor’s.

• Enrollment: 2,175
• Cost of Attendance: $79,890
• Median SAT: 1430
• Acceptance Rate: 28%
• Retention Rate: 88%

Barnard College

Academic Highlights: Barnard has a 10:1 student-faculty ratio, and a sensational 71% of courses are capped at nineteen or fewer students; 18% have fewer than ten. Many get the chance to engage in research alongside a professor as 240+ undergraduates are granted such an opportunity through the Summer Research Institute each year. Barnard’s most popular majors, by number of degrees conferred, include economics, English, political science, history, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and art history.

Professional Outcomes: Six months after graduation, 91% of 2022 Barnard grads had found employment or were enrolled in a graduate program. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley all appear on the list of the top fifteen employers of Barnard alumni. Within ten years of graduation, over 80% of Barnard alums eventually enroll in graduate school. Those entering graduate school flock in large numbers to Columbia, with 112 heading there over the last three years.

• Enrollment: 3,442
• Cost of Attendance: $90,928
• Acceptance Rate: 9%

Georgetown University

• Washington, D.C.

Academic Highlights: The student-faculty ratio is 11:1, and 60% of classes enroll fewer than 20 students. While some classes are a bit larger, only 7% cross the 50-student threshold. Those desiring to join the world of politics or diplomacy are in the right place. The Government and International Affairs programs are among the best in the country. The greatest number of degrees are conferred in the social sciences (38%) followed by business (20%), interdisciplinary studies (8%), and biology (7%).

Professional Outcomes: Within six months of graduating, 75% of members of the Class of 2022 entered the workforce, 19% went directly into a graduate or professional program of study, and 3% were still seeking employment. The Class of 2022 sent massive numbers of graduates to a number of major corporations including JPMorgan Chase (22), Citi (21), BOA (18), Morgan Stanley (16), and EY (10). Those attending grad school stay at Georgetown or flock to other elite schools like Columbia and Harvard.

• Enrollment: 7,900
• Cost of Attendance: $85,000

Elon University

Academic Highlights: Students choose from 70 majors and can add a number of interesting minors like adventure-based learning, coaching, and multimedia authoring. Elon’s 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio leads to an average class size of 20 students; 51% of sections contain fewer than 20 students. The areas in which the greatest number of degrees are conferred are business (29%), journalism/communication (20%), social sciences (8%), the visual and performing arts (6%), and psychology (6%).

Professional Outcomes: Results of a survey administered nine months after graduation found that 96% of the Class of 2022 had found employment, a graduate school, or an internship. Top employers of recent Elon graduates include Bloomberg, Deloitte, EY, Google, Goldman Sachs, Red Ventures, and Wells Fargo. Recent business grads enjoyed a median salary of $61k while communications majors earned $47k. Just under one-quarter of recent grads gained acceptance into graduate/professional school and many remain at Elon.

• Enrollment: 6,337
• Cost of Attendance: $66,657
• Median SAT: 1260
• Median ACT: 28
• Acceptance Rate: 78%

DePauw University

• Greencastle, IN

Academic Highlights: No matter which of the 40+ majors you pursue at DePauw, you will enjoy the benefits of small class sizes and face time with faculty. A 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio and the fact that only four class sections in the whole university enroll more than 29 students assures that. The greatest number of DePauw undergrads earn degrees in the social sciences (17%), biology (10%), the visual/performing arts (9%), communication/journalism (8%), and computer science (6%).

Professional Outcomes: The university’s “Gold Commitment” guarantees that all grads will land at their next destination within six months, or they will be provided with an entry-level professional opportunity or an additional tuition-free semester. Top employers of DePauw grads include Eli Lilly and Company, IBM, Northern Trust Corporation, AT&T, and Procter & Gamble. Tigers applying to graduate and professional schools experience high levels of success. Of medical school applicants who earned a 3.6 GPA and scored in the 80th percentile on the MCAT, 90% are accepted to at least one institution.

• Enrollment: 1,752
• Cost of Attendance: $74,400
• Acceptance Rate: 66%
• Graduation Rate: 79%

University of Washington – Seattle

• Seattle, WA

Academic Highlights: 180+ undergraduate majors are offered across thirteen colleges/schools. Personal connections with professors abound as 55% of grads complete a faculty-mentored research project. The College of Engineering, which includes the College of Computer Science & Engineering, is one of the best in the nation; UW also boasts strong programs in everything from business to social work to environmental science. The most popular degrees are the social sciences (13%), biology (12%), computer science (11%), and business (8%).

Professional Outcomes: Within months of graduation, 73% of Class of 2022 grads were employed and 17% were continuing their education. The most popular employers of the Class of 2022 included Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, and KPMG. Across all living alumni, 6,000+ work for Microsoft, and 4000+ work for each of Boeing and Amazon. Of those headed to graduate/professional school, just over half remain in state, mostly at UW itself. Large numbers of 2022 grads also headed to Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and USC.

• Enrollment: 36,872 (undergraduate); 16,211 (graduate)
• Cost of Attendance: $34,554 (in-state); $63,906 (out-of-state)
• Median SAT: 1420
• Acceptance Rate: 48%
• Retention Rate: 94%

We hope you have found our list of the Best Colleges for Creative Writing to be useful and informative as you continue your college search process. We also invite you to check out some of our other resources and tools including:

• AP Score Calculators 
• SAT Score Calculator 
• ACT Score Calculator
• Best Summer Programs 
• College List Building Tool
• Best Colleges by Major

Andrew Belasco

A licensed counselor and published researcher, Andrew's experience in the field of college admissions and transition spans two decades. He has previously served as a high school counselor, consultant and author for Kaplan Test Prep, and advisor to U.S. Congress, reporting on issues related to college admissions and financial aid.

• 2-Year Colleges
• Application Strategies
• Best Colleges by State
• Big Picture
• Career & Personality Assessment
• College Essay
• College Search/Knowledge
• College Success
• Costs & Financial Aid
• Dental School Admissions
• Extracurricular Activities
• Graduate School Admissions
• High School Success
• High Schools
• Law School Admissions
• Medical School Admissions
• Navigating the Admissions Process
• Online Learning
• Private High School Spotlight
• Summer Program Spotlight
• Summer Programs
• Test Prep Provider Spotlight

“Innovative and invaluable…use this book as your college lifeline.”

— Lynn O'Shaughnessy

Nationally Recognized College Expert

College Planning in Your Inbox

Join our information-packed monthly newsletter.

I am a... Student Student Parent Counselor Educator Other First Name Last Name Email Address Zip Code Area of Interest Business Computer Science Engineering Fine/Performing Arts Humanities Mathematics STEM Pre-Med Psychology Social Studies/Sciences Submit

Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices.

About the Book

Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text in other writing-intensive classes. It provides a friendly, down-to-earth introduction to professors’ goals and expectations, demystifying the norms of the academy and how they shape college writing assignments. Each of the nine chapters can be read separately, and each includes suggested exercises to bring the main messages to life.

Students will find in Writing in College a warm invitation to join the academic community as novice scholars and to approach writing as a meaningful medium of communication. With concise discussions, clear multidisciplinary examples, and empathy for the challenges of student life, Guptill conveys a welcoming tone. In addition, each chapter includes Student Voices: peer-to-peer wisdom from real SUNY Brockport students about their strategies for and experiences with college writing.

While there are many affordable writing guides available, most focus only on sentence-level issues or, conversely, a broad introduction to making the transition. Writing In College , in contrast, provides both a coherent frame for approaching writing assignments and indispensable advice for effective organization and expression.

About the Author

Amy Guptill is an Associate Professor of Sociology at The College at Brockport, SUNY where she has a joint appointment with the Delta College Program, an alternative interdisciplinary General Education option. Her research focuses on spatial and structural shifts in agriculture and food systems with recent work on innovative agricultural marketing. She teaches courses in the sociology of food, development and globalization, community and social change, social statistics and college writing. In addition to Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence , and she is the coauthor of a recent college textbook entitled Food & Society: Principles and Paradoxes (Malden, MA: Polity, 2012).

About Open SUNY Textbooks

Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This initiative publishes high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.

The pilot launched in 2012, providing an editorial framework and service to authors, students and faculty, and establishing a community of practice among libraries.

Participating libraries in the 2012-2013 pilot include SUNY Geneseo, College at Brockport, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY Fredonia, Upstate Medical University, and University at Buffalo, with support from other SUNY libraries and SUNY Press. The 2013-2014 pilot will add more titles in 2015. More information can be found at http://textbooks.opensuny.org .

Writing in College Copyright © 2016 by Amy Guptill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License , except where otherwise noted.

Share This Book

Feedback/errata.

Comments are closed.

MFA Alum Spotlight Interview With Emily Strasser

In Emily Strasser’s debut book  Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History , she delves into the secretive history of her grandfather’s work with the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The book required vulnerability and conversations that were long overdue. Strasser sifts through her family’s memories and travels the world in order to rebuild the story that no one wanted to tell. Now, the book has won the 2024 Reed Prize in Environmental Writing from the Southern Environmental Law Center and is a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.

Emily is an alum of the University MFA program where she spent time researching and writing  Half-Life.  Her work has also appeared in  Catapult, Ploughshares, Guernica, Colorado Review, The Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , and more. She received an AWP Intro Award and was a McKnight fellow among many other accomplishments.

Impressed by her work and recent award, I invited Emily for a Spotlight Series interview:

Hannah Karau:  Emily, it’s nice to have you here. Thank you very much again. So your book  Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History just won the Reed Environmental Writing Award and is a Minnesota Book Award finalist! Huge congratulations for that. The book is quickly gathering prestige. Can you tell me about the writing process and how it felt to divulge into those secret histories?

Emily Strasser:  Yeah, thank you. This book took me about 10 years to write. It was very intensive and took a lot of research. So the book traces my journey to reckon with the legacy of my grandfather's work building nuclear weapons in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which is a secret city built by the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. 

It involved me learning about a lot of things that I knew nothing about. I did not study science at all, so I had to learn about nuclear weaponry, World War Two history, physics, all kinds of things. I traveled widely: I went to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I went to the Nevada test site outside of Las Vegas, where they would test the nuclear weapons. I also spent a lot of time in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where my grandfather had lived and worked, and did a lot of archival research. So it's both deeply personal and has a much wider scope than that. I did a bulk of that work over my time in the MFA. 

Then you asked about what it was like to divulge these hidden histories. So for a little bit of context, this was not a story that my family spoke much about. And in many ways, this history is still sort of suppressed nationally. Oak Ridge was built as a secret project and was a secret during World War Two. Of course, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was no longer hidden, but there's still a culture of secrecy around it and a lack of national reckoning about it. I was also divulging and exploring some more personal, family secrets around mental illness. So yeah, it was quite vulnerable to publish a book that was both so personal and so political. And I think I was able to write it because I tricked myself into thinking no one would ever read it. I mean, I did have readers along the way. I had my MFA colleagues, I had friends and family who read it, editors, people like that. But it wasn't until I had a publisher secured that I was gripped by the pure terror of what would happen when real people who have real connections to this history read this book. I felt quite vulnerable, but the response has been quite lovely. 

I’ve gotten to hear from a lot of people who have personal connections to this history or who have their own family secrets that they are interested in that they have shaped the textures of their lives. People resonate with the book in a variety of ways. So my worst fears about its publication have not yet come to pass. 

HK: I'm glad that the response was better than you were expecting. I think it’s normal to have fears about publishing personal things. So it's really good when that goes better than planned. I'm curious, you said it took 10 years. Wow! How much time during your MFA did you have to go traveling, researching, and meeting people?

ES:  Well, a great thing about the MFA program at the U—I don't know about all of them—is that there are opportunities for research funding. There are lots of pots of money both within the program itself and within the university at large. So I applied to a lot of different grants and I was able to go both to the Nevada Test Site and to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They both happened while I was in the MFA program over the summer. I applied to some grants that were external to the university as well, but there are opportunities within the program.

HK:  Awesome. All right. So you have a lot of other great accomplishments to your name as well. The McKnight and Olivia B O'Connor fellowships, writing in  Best American Essays , the AWP Intro Award and plenty more. How have these successes impacted your life and writing since?

ES:  Yeah, of course, winning awards is lovely validation, especially when you're working on something very hard for a very long time. And it's solo work often, so it's always nice to be recognized. But it can be a bit of a double edged sword, like you never want to be writing for the sake of getting recognition because you're always going to have moments when you don't win the thing. For everything that I've won, I've not won ten other things that I applied for.

I think it's important for people to know that it is a game of numbers. It's a game of a lot of things. Looking at a list of people's successes, you can think “Oh, it's easy.” I just don't want people to be discouraged if they haven't yet gained external recognition. There is the element that it resonated with people, and it resonated with people who have the power to confer some honor. It’s wonderful when that happens, but also it's so random. Like who are the people who have that power? 

It's important not to let awards and recognition be the driving force. You know, for one example, I won the Ploughshares emerging writers award with an essay in 2015, and then later it was an honorable mention for  Best American essays . I had submitted that essay to that same contest, or different contests, like three or four years in a row. I revised it between submitting each time because I knew that it could get better, and it got better, and eventually it won. And then agents started contacting me based on that essay, but it took persistence.

HK:  That’s so encouraging!

ES:  If you believe in it, you know, keep at it. 

HK:  That's really great, Emily. So to take a turn here, as an alum of the University of Minnesota MFA program, can you share what parts of the program have been most beneficial to your writing career so far?

ES:  Sure. I think the biggest thing was time and space to write. Not all MFA programs are funded, so some of them you have to pay for. The University of Minnesota MFA is funded, which means that you teach undergraduate classes or some people get a fellowship instead. So I did teach the whole time in exchange for tuition and a small stipend. It’s not a lot of money, but people manage to make it work, or they do side hustles and make it work. That is a huge gift to have. 

It’s three years—a lot of MFA programs are only two years—where your main job is reading and writing. I’d say that's the biggest benefit. But certainly, the mentorship I gained there was huge and also developing a great writing community. I'm still friends with a lot of the people in my MFA program, and they're still people who will read my work, you know, and who I exchange work with now. Those are the biggest things, then we already mentioned research funding, but that was super helpful, too.

HK:  Awesome. That's really good to hear, too—that that community outlasts the MFA program. It’s great that you really get to keep up with those people and keep having those writer friends.

ES:  Yeah! The cohorts are small, and a lot of people move for the program, so when you come and you don't know anyone in the city you have built-in friends.

HK:  So You form friendships quickly. You can't help but get close to them. So now that you've been done with school for a bit, and you're doing quite well in your field, what advice would you give to writers who are beginning their career and who may be interested in an MFA?

ES:  Yeah, I think MFAs are great, especially if they're funded. I wouldn't advise anyone to go into debt to get an MFA. It's not a degree that has any guarantee of financial payoff. In fact, it has more of a guarantee of financial insecurity if you decide to pursue the career of being a writer. So take that for what it's worth.

I took a few years between undergrad and grad school, and I'm really glad I did. It helped. I was interested in an MFA when I graduated, but I decided not to apply right away. And I think it helped to make me more focused and dedicated when I got there. It also gave me a little bit more life experience. It can be hard if you've been in school so long, to just go straight to more school. And if the reason you're going is because you're not sure what to do next. You're gonna bring a different level of motivation and dedication, than if you're sure that you want to be writing in a serious way. Some of my colleagues did come straight from school, and they're amazing writers, and they  were very dedicated, so I'm not trying to say anything negative about their paths. But for me, it was really good that I took the time in between and it kept me motivated and focused.

HK:  Yeah, I think you're right that with it being a degree that doesn't necessarily guarantee financial stability, that it is a good idea to be 100% Sure. 

ES:  And that said, people do different things after the MFA. Because nobody has full time writing without another job. Unless you're–

HK: Stephen King or something?

ES:  Stephen King, exactly. But some of them are high school teachers, or managing nonprofits or teaching college courses, like there's a lot of different things, and people manage to keep up a writing life in a lot of different ways. 

HK:  Yeah, there's still plenty you can do. So back to you,  Half-Life has been out for almost a year. Can you tell me about your next writing project, or the next big thing that you're working on or thinking about? 

ES:  So it's still early stages, I'll say that.  Half-Life  took me so long that I was really tired when I finished. They also don't tell you that when a book comes out, the writer has a lot of work to do as far as publicity, which is not something that I like to do, or that I'm good at. So it takes a lot out of me. Although things like doing events have become easier than it was at the very beginning. So I'm grateful for that. 

Anyway, I'm only in the early stages. But I'm working on essays broadly linked by climate grief. And I won't go deep into it, because it's very much a baby. But I will say that I'm excited to work on it. I'm not envisioning this as like a single narrative, the way that  Half-Life was. I think I need to shift my pace a little bit to working on essays that can be kind of published one off or finished more quickly than a whole book. 

HK: No, that makes sense. And I think that's a good and interesting topic. I know it's a baby project, but can you tell me a little bit more about grief over climate change?

ES:  Yeah, so it spurred from my own experience a few years ago of reading something that really touched my heart and kind of blew me wide open. My thinking went to sort of a transcendent place of a lot of gratitude for my life and the beauty of the world, and also a place of deep despair about, what if it's too late, you know? And that sent me on a journey of reading and seeking out spiritual frameworks for thinking about climate grief. So it will be sort of circling around those experiences and picking up different threads related to that.

HK:  Very cool. Thank you for that. I think that's all the questions I have for you, but I really appreciate your time and thoughtful answers! And the insight on your upcoming work, of course. Good luck with the final round of the MN Book Awards as well!

Related News

MFA Student Spotlight Interview With Nen Ramirez

Read a Q&A with Nen Ramirez about their forthcoming book and experience in our MFA!

MFA Student Spotlight Interview With Julian Robles

Learn about the MFA experience and Julian's upcoming works in this Q&A.

MFA Student Spotlight Interview with torrin a. greathouse

Read a Q&A with torrin greathouse about her work and experience in our MFA!

More Creative Writing News

• Education & Training
• Affording College
• Job Seekers
• Workforce Solutions
• Current students
• Faculty & Staff
• News Archive
• Announcements
• Morrison Gallery

Heartland Review Press to host creative writing workshop

Published on Apr 15, 2024

The Heartland Review Press invites high school and college students to register for a creative writing workshop with local poet Jan LaPerle. The workshop is 6 to 8 p.m. April 30 at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, James S. Owen Building, room 131.

Jan LaPerle’s publications include “Maybe the Land Sings Back” (Galileo Press, 2022), “It Would be Quiet” (Prime Mincer Press, 2013), an e-chap of flash fiction, “Hush” (Sundress Publications, 2012), and a story in verse, “A Pretty Place to Mourn” (BlazeVOX, 2014). She lives in Elizabethtown with her husband Clay and daughter Winnie. LaPerle will retire from the U.S. Army this year.

The workshop has 25 seats. Students will create an original work that will be considered for publication in ECTC’s literary journal The Heartland Review. A registration fee of $20 will support similar future events for the college and community. To register, visit ectc.us/creative-writing-workshop .

For more information, contact Mick Kennedy at [email protected] .  

Ava Moreci ‘25 (CCS Writing & Literature) receives an inaugural 2023-2024 M. Garren Tinney Travel Award

Ucsb undergraduate writers are inspired to pursue writing-related travel opportunities thanks to m. garren tinney memorial fund.

The Writing Program in the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) recently announced the inaugural 2023-2024 M. Garren Tinney Travel Award Recipients: Ava Moreci ‘25 (CCS Writing & Literature) and Jackie Jauregui ‘25 (L&S Spanish). Elora Shaw ’25 (L&S Psychological and Brain Sciences, Biological Anthropology) received an Honorable Mention. Thanks to the M. Garren Tinney Memorial Fund established in June 2023 in loving memory of M. Garren Tinney ‘01 (L&S English), talented students each year receive an award to support travel related to their writing.  

Ava will use her award to attend the Puget Sound Bird Festival in Edmonds, Washington that attracts scholars, writers, and communities of birdwatchers for writing and research development in the areas of birds, nature writing, and climate change. Jackie will participate in ieiMedia's Berlin Project, a three-week journalism intensive program in Berlin, Germany led by professionals with storied careers. 

The College of Creative Studies (CCS) congratulates both recipients!  

For more information:

“2023-2024 M. Garren Tinney Travel Award Recipients Announced,” UCSB Writing Program, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, April 17, 2024

“ Writing Program names inaugural M. Garren Tinney Fellows ,” UCSB The Current, January 24, 2024 

“Inaugural 2023-2024 M. Garren Tinney Writing Fellows,” UCSB Writing Program, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, January 19, 2024

For inquiries and to make a gift in loving memory of Garren to the M. Garren Tinney Memorial Fund, contact Venilde Jeronimo ([email protected]). Gifts to this Fund can also be made online.

2018 Primetime Emmy & James Beard Award Winner

R&K Insider

Join our newsletter to get exclusives on where our correspondents travel, what they eat, where they stay. Free to sign up.

A History of Moscow in 13 Dishes

Featured city guides.