Q&A: My daughter wants to study Arabic in college. Which schools have the strongest programs in Arabic?

Question by David: My daughter wants to study Arabic in college. Which schools have the strongest programs in Arabic?
She already speaks a couple of other languages (we’ve lived abroad in recent years), and she got hooked on Arabic during a 6-month stint in Khartoum, Sudan. She has killer grades and test scores, so getting into college won’t be a problem, but it’s hard to figure out which schools offer solid programs in this area. Many schools bring in adjunct lecturers to teach their Arabic language courses (because none of their fixed faculty are qualified to teach it), and most offer a degree only in “Middle Eastern Studies” with emphasis in Arabic, or something like that. She’ll settle for the latter, if the program is solid and respected. But it’s tough to figure out where are the excellent schools in this field by searching the college websites. We’re hoping someone out there knows which are the hot schools for Arabic.

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Answer by eri
I don’t know in this area Arabic in fastidious, but Middlebury College in Vermont is one of the top schools in the country for studying languages. I’d try out them out.

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