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Ranked in 2013 | English Rankings Methodology

Earning a master's degree or Ph.D. in English can improve your writing skills, sharpen your analytical abilities, and broaden your literary knowledge. These are the top schools for a graduate degree in English.

Rank	School name	Score
#1	University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA	4.9
#2	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	4.8
#2	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4.8
#4	Columbia University New York, NY	4.7
#4	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	4.7
#4	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	4.7
#4	Yale University New Haven, CT	4.7
#8	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	4.6
#8	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	4.6
#10	Duke University Durham, NC	4.4
#10	University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	4.4
#10	University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA	4.4
#13	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	4.3
#13	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	4.3
#15	Brown University Providence, RI	4.2
#15	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	4.2
#17	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	4.1
#17	University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX	4.1
#17	University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI	4.1
#20	New York University New York, NY	4.0
#20	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	4.0
#22	CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, NY	3.9
#22	Indiana University–Bloomington Bloomington, IN	3.9
#22	University of California–Irvine Irvine, CA	3.9
#22	University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL	3.9

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