sansloy

Thanks all--appreciate the feedback.

Cool, thanks. I'm new to the idea of graduate school application and obviously don't know much about where to start looking. Maybe it would help for me to lay out what I'm looking for. I'm a published poet with a totally unrelated career. I'm not looking to go into academia and therefore not interested in getting a Ph.D., but I want to study poetics/literary theory (not writing workshops) in a formal/academic setting. I'm more or less stuck in NYC, and looking for a good program with low tuition, which rules out Columbia/NYU. Would anyone be able to recommend a low-tuition MA program in NYC with good poetics/literary theory professors? Unfortunately I just don't know where to start looking.

First time using the forums, so apologies to the mods if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I'm looking into getting a Masters degree in English from CUNY. I'm interested in this program in particular because I live and work in NYC, and since, because I already have debt from undergraduate and professional degrees, I find the NYU and Columbia MA's prohibitively expensive. Can anyone confirm which CUNY English program is the #20 ranked by USNews? It looks like there's an MA in English at Queens College, an MA in Literature at CCNY, and an MA in Literature, Language and Theory at Hunter. (Or if USNews is a bad indicator of quality, what else do people look at to decide on a graduate school?) Also, is there anywhere I can browse the courses offered by each program, including hopefully the times at which the classes are offered? I'll likely have to do evening classes (or weekend if available). Finally, can someone direct me to admissions requirements and acceptance rates for the CUNY English MA? Thanks very much!