English department ranked in top ten by U. S. News and World Report

March 12, 2013

This year, U.S. News also conducted new peer surveys and published new rankings for Ph.D. programs in economics, English, history, political science, psychology and sociology – all parts of U.Va.’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Those programs were last ranked five years ago.

The U.Va. English Ph.D. program is ranked No. 10, tied with the University of California-Los Angeles and Duke University. Several English specialties ranked highly, including American literature after 1865 (No. 4 tie), American literature before 1865 (No. 5), and 18th- through 20th-century British literature (No. 2 tie).

See the whole thing at http://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-graduate-schools-programs-excel-2014-us-news-rankings. You can check out the rest of the rankings at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/....