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

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.