Creative Writing Major Berkeley
USC, UCLA, or UC Berkeley for English majors?
I want to major in English, more so on the creative writing side than journalism or anything like that. I know that all of these schools have stellar graduate programs, but what about their undergraduate programs? Which school out of those three have the best english/creative writing program? How sure are you of your answer? Also, what are the pros and cons of these three schools? Please help me. 10 points for best answer!
not based on the name or prestige of the school, but strictly based on their english/creative writing programs.
I would say that UC Berkeley would be your best bet if you want to major in English. All three of those schools are amazing and you would do very well at all of them, but I think that Berkeley has more of an edge — especially in the creative writing area. Berkeley is the epitome of the liberal/creative/thinking outside the box scene, and although UCLA and USC foster some of those characteristics as well, Berkeley would be a better school. To top it off, Berkeley is more widely known for its Humanities programs, whereas UCLA and USC are more known for their Science/Medicine/Math programs.
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