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Kenyon College
Kenyon College, founded in 1824, has built one of the strongest reputations in the country for undergraduate creative writing, a distinction traced in part to The Kenyon Review, a literary journal founded on campus in 1939 that remains one of the most respected literary publications in the United States. The college's rural, self-contained campus in Gambier, Ohio — a village that essentially exists because of the college — has fostered a tight-knit residential culture, and Kenyon's Middle Path, a mile-long walkway running through the heart of campus, has become the school's defining physical and symbolic landmark. Kenyon's English department has produced a disproportionate number of prominent novelists, poets, and journalists relative to the college's small size, a reputation that continues to draw students specifically interested in creative writing to a rural Ohio campus rather than a more urban literary hub. The college's combination of a strong overall liberal arts curriculum with a genuinely elite creative writing reputation, all within a small, isolated campus community, gives Kenyon a distinctive identity among national liberal arts colleges, one built as much around its literary tradition as its broader academic rankings.
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Miami University
Miami University, founded in 1809 in Oxford, Ohio, is often called a "Public Ivy," a term for public universities offering an academic experience comparable to the Ivy League, and Miami's undergraduate-focused teaching model, with class sizes closer to a private liberal arts college than a typical large state university, is central to that reputation. The university's Farmer School of Business is consistently ranked among the top undergraduate business programs at any public university in the country, and Miami's education program has one of the longest and most respected histories in American teacher training, dating back to the university's origins as a regional teaching institution. Miami's classical, red-brick Georgian campus architecture, largely uniform across the university's core academic buildings, has made it one of the most frequently cited "beautiful campus" honorees among American universities, a distinct aesthetic identity relative to the more architecturally varied campuses of larger state flagships. The university's deliberate emphasis on small class sizes and close faculty engagement, unusual for a public university of its size, has made Miami a consistent choice for students seeking a private-college-like undergraduate experience without the corresponding private-university tuition, particularly for in-state Ohio residents.
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