Most Popular Schools for Comparative Literature Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on two or more literary traditions in the original languages or in translation. Includes instruction in comparative linguistics; applicable foreign languages; English/French language and literature; literary criticism; and applications to genre, period, national, and textual studies as well as literary forms such as poetry, prose, and drama.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of California-Santa Cruz	146	3%	$36,217
2	The University of Texas at Dallas	56	1%	$29,286
3	Ramapo College of New Jersey	39	2%	$31,572
4	University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras	35	2%	$19,876
5	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	30	0%	$27,638
6	Brown University	28	1%	$73,802
7	New York University	27	0%	$73,566
8	Princeton University	24	1%	$70,900
9	Columbia University in the City of New York	23	0%	$76,856
10	University of California-Los Angeles	22	0%	$34,620
11	University of California-Irvine	20	0%	$34,261
12	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	18	0%	$36,652
13	University of California-Berkeley	17	0%	$38,066
14	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	16	0%	$27,898
15	California State University-Long Beach	16	0%	$24,738
16	Dartmouth College	15	1%	$74,359
17	Oberlin College	15	2%	$74,636
18	San Francisco State University	14	0%	$27,480
19	University of California-Davis	14	0%	$35,177
20	Harvard University	13	0%	$71,650
21	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	12	0%	$23,811
22	Stanford University	12	0%	$71,587
23	University of California-Santa Barbara	12	0%	$36,659
24	University of Connecticut	12	0%	$32,404
25	Yale University	11	0%	$73,900
26	Binghamton University	11	0%	$26,866
27	University of Oregon	11	0%	$27,366
28	Williams College	10	2%	$73,200
29	University of Pennsylvania	10	0%	$74,408
30	University of Georgia	9	0%	$26,688
31	Middlebury College	9	1%	$71,980
32	University of New Mexico-Main Campus	8	0%	$22,639
33	Cornell University	8	0%	$73,904
34	University of Southern California	7	0%	$74,825
35	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	7	0%	$30,913
36	Stony Brook University	7	0%	$26,091
37	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	7	0%	$32,443
38	University at Buffalo	6	0%	$27,758
39	Colorado College	6	1%	$71,642
40	CUNY Graduate School and University Center	6	0%	N/A
41	Smith College	5	1%	$72,701
42	Northwestern University	5	0%	$74,649
43	Occidental College	5	1%	$74,132
44	Reed College	5	2%	$73,207
45	Haverford College	5	2%	$73,902
46	Boston University	4	0%	$72,618
47	Barnard College	4	1%	$74,777
48	Clackamas Community College	4	0%	$6,744
49	Indiana University-Bloomington	4	0%	$24,779
50	Brigham Young University-Provo	4	0%	$18,776
51	Washington University in St Louis	3	0%	$74,361
52	Bryn Mawr College	3	1%	$70,860
53	University of California-Riverside	3	0%	$35,242
54	University of Rochester	3	0%	$72,721
55	University of South Carolina-Columbia	3	0%	$28,301
56	University of San Francisco	3	0%	$68,296
57	Beloit College	3	1%	$61,584
58	University of Wisconsin-Madison	3	0%	$26,025
59	University of Utah	2	0%	$24,472
60	San Diego State University	2	0%	$29,318
61	The University of Texas at Austin	2	0%	$26,506
62	University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez	2	0%	$6,262
63	Ohio Wesleyan University	2	1%	$61,910
64	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	2	0%	$30,102
65	CUNY Queens College	2	0%	$28,907
66	University of Chicago	2	0%	$78,555
67	Wellesley College	2	0%	$72,250
68	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	2	0%	$30,298
69	Hofstra University	1	0%	$63,748
70	California State University-Fullerton	1	0%	$27,738
71	University of Arkansas	1	0%	$25,500
72	Georgetown University	1	0%	$73,840
73	Fordham University	1	0%	$74,265
74	SUNY College at Geneseo	1	0%	$25,761
75	Ohio State University-Main Campus	1	0%	$27,367
76	College of the Holy Cross	1	0%	$69,190
77	CUNY Hunter College	1	0%	$22,379
78	University of Colorado Boulder	1	0%	$31,044
79	University of Dallas	1	0%	$57,352
80	Purdue University-Main Campus	1	0%	$22,822
81	Emory University	1	0%	$69,502

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Comparative Literature program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.