2025 Best English Doctor's Degree Schools in New York

English is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #31 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best English Doctor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 94 doctor's degrees in english during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great English School for Your Doctor's Degree

The english language doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on english students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other english students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized english related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for english students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best English Doctor's Degree Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study English in New York

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for english students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top New York Schools for a Doctorate in English Language

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

20 Annual Graduates

Columbia University in the City of New York is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in english. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in english from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Cornell University if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in english. Cornell is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca.More information about a doctorate in english from Cornell University

3

Fordham University
Bronx, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Fordham University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in english. Located in the city of Bronx, Fordham U is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in english from Fordham University

Best English Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best English Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	311	70
Maryland	190	21
New Jersey	165	26
District of Columbia	143	7
Delaware	63	6

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.