Comparative Literature

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.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 82 institutions across the United States, with a total of 2839 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

594

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

153

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

191

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,893

awards given

Top Schools for Comparative Literature

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA	348
2	The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX	201
3	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	198
4	Yale University New Haven, CT	96
5	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	93
6	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	84
7	University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras San Juan, PR	84
8	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	81
9	New York University New York, NY	75
10	Occidental College Los Angeles, CA	69
11	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	63
12	Brown University Providence, RI	60
13	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	60
14	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	57
15	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	57
16	Binghamton University Vestal, NY	54
17	University of Oregon Eugene, OR	51
18	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	45
19	Stanford University Stanford, CA	45
20	CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, NY	42
21	San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA	42
22	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	42
23	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	42
24	Oberlin College Oberlin, OH	39
25	Boston University Boston, MA	36
26	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	36
27	Emory University Atlanta, GA	36
28	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	33
29	Williams College Williamstown, MA	33
30	University of Georgia Athens, GA	30
31	University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Mayaguez, PR	30
32	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	30
33	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	30
34	Reed College Portland, OR	27
35	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	27
36	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	27
37	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	27
38	San Diego State University San Diego, CA	27
39	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	24
40	University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA	21
41	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	21
42	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	21
43	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	18
44	Middlebury College Middlebury, VT	18
45	Smith College Northampton, MA	15
46	University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque, NM	15
47	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	15
48	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	15
49	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	15
50	Barnard College New York, NY	12
51	University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR	12
52	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	12
53	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	9
54	Fordham University Bronx, NY	9
55	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	9
56	Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH	9
57	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	9
58	CUNY Hunter College New York, NY	9
59	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	9
60	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	6
61	Wellesley College Wellesley, MA	6
62	Clark University Worcester, MA	6
63	CUNY Lehman College Bronx, NY	6
64	University of Dallas Irving, TX	6
65	University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI	4
66	University of California-Merced Merced, CA	3
67	California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA	3
68	University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA	3
69	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	3
70	Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO	3
71	Georgetown University Washington, DC	3
72	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	3
73	College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA	3
74	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	3
75	CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY	3
76	CUNY Queens College Queens, NY	3
77	Hofstra University Hempstead, NY	3
78	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	3
79	Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA	3
80	Haverford College Haverford, PA	3
81	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	3
82	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	3