Best English Language and Literature colleges in the U.S. 2024

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

About 40,000 years ago, the first human wrote down a story — albeit it was a simple depiction on a cave wall, but an idea and message was delivered to other humans even centuries later all the same. Since then, throngs of talented writers have put ink to paper, fingers to typewriter, and hands to keyboard to fill our libraries with works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, and prose, both long and short. Authors filled pages upon pages with writings that captured moments in history, truths of human nature, ideas of what the future held. Those insights, those tastes of cultures and classes and past zeitgeists are waiting to be remembered and experienced. And you can discover them and live vicariously through the words of our Western world’s greatest authors — as an English language and literature major.

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Best English Language and Literature colleges in the U.S. for 2024

Alabama A & M University offers 1 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a medium sized, public, four-year university in a midsize city. In 2022, 6 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 6 Bachelor's degrees.

University of Alabama at Birmingham offers 2 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a very large, public, four-year university in a midsize city. In 2022, 63 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 53 Bachelor's degrees, and 10 Master's degrees.

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University of Alabama in Huntsville offers 2 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a medium sized, public, four-year university in a midsize city. In 2022, 24 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 15 Bachelor's degrees, and 9 Master's degrees.

Alabama State University
Montgomery, AL

Alabama State University offers 1 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a small, public, four-year university in a midsize city. In 2022, 12 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 12 Bachelor's degrees.

The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

The University of Alabama offers 3 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a very large, public, four-year university in a small city. In 2022, 110 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 94 Bachelor's degrees, 14 Master's degrees, and 2 Doctoral degrees.

Athens State University offers 1 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a small, public, four-year university in a outlying town. In 2022, 16 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 16 Bachelor's degrees.

Auburn University at Montgomery offers 1 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a medium sized, public, four-year university in a midsize city. In 2022, 11 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 11 Bachelor's degrees.

Auburn University
Auburn, AL

Auburn University offers 3 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a very large, public, four-year university in a small city. In 2022, 79 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 62 Bachelor's degrees, 13 Master's degrees, and 4 Doctoral degrees.

Birmingham-Southern College offers 1 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a very small, private not-for-profit, four-year university in a midsize city. In 2022, 9 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 9 Bachelor's degrees.

Faulkner University
Montgomery, AL

Faulkner University offers 1 English Language and Literature, General degree programs. It's a small, private not-for-profit, four-year university in a midsize city. In 2022, 5 English Language and Literature, General students graduated with students earning 5 Bachelor's degrees.

List of all English Language and Literature colleges in the U.S.

School Average Tuition Student Teacher Ratio Enrolled Students
Delaware Valley University Logo Delaware Valley University Doylestown, PA
5/5
25 : 1 2,178
Cuesta College Logo Cuesta College San Luis Obispo, CA
1/5
70 : 1 9,908
Tulane University of Louisiana Logo Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA
5/5
16 : 1 14,027
Erskine College Logo Erskine College Due West, SC
5/5
25 : 1 956
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Logo University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth North Dartmouth, MA
3/5
20 : 1 7,457