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2010 MFA Rankings: The Top Fifty

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Rank	School	Votes (of 508)	Poetry Rank	Fiction Rank	Nonfiction Rank	Total Funding Rank	Annual Funding Rank	Selectivity Rank	Postgraduate Placement Rank
1	University of Iowa in Iowa City	253	1	1	1	21	22	22	2
2	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	169	3	2	*	16	4	14	4
3	University of Virginia, Charlottesville	144	2	4	*	21	21	2	7
4	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	132	4	5	*	40	41	15	30
4	University of Texas, Austin	132	5	6	*	1	1	1	1
6	University of Wisconsin, Madison	129	6	11	*	21	22	8	7
7	Brown University in Providence	127	8	3	*	19	20	5	19
8	New York University in New York City	125	7	7	*	+	+	38	15
9	Cornell University in Ithaca, New York	110	9	7	*	10	2	3	3
10	University of Oregon, Eugene	104	15	12	*	27	29	7	5
11	Syracuse University in New York	97	20	10	*	5	7	30	23
12	Indiana University, Bloomington	93	13	14	*	6	8	11	15
13	University of California, Irvine	91	26	9	*	26	28	9	12
14	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis	85	17	14	8	29	27	17	10
15	Brooklyn College, CUNY	81	39	13	*	*	*	36	*
16	University of Montana, Missoula	78	17	17	17	47	46	24	19
17	Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore	77	11	16	*	30	30	10	*
18	Vanderbilt University in Nashville	76	13	18	23	25	26	4	*
19	University of North Carolina, Greensboro	75	10	19	*	33	31	12	12
20	Washington University, St. Louis	70	15	24	*	12	3	6	15
21	University of Florida, Gainesville	67	22	21	*	13	16	13	15
22	Columbia University in New York City	66	38	19	10	*	*	*	28
23	University of Notre Dame in Indiana	62	34	22	12	+	+	32	*
24	Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia	56	32	26	4	+	+	23	*
24	University of North Carolina, Wilmington	56	22	25	5	41	42	39	*
26	Arizona State University, Tempe	55	19	28	35	15	18	18	*
26	Hunter College, CUNY	55	45	22	6	*	*	26	*
26	University of Houston in Texas	55	11	34	18	34	34	N/A	6
29	Colorado State University, Fort Collins	53	20	34	*	42	43	N/A	*
29	The New School in New York City	53	47	27	3	*	*	41	*
31	Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York	52	27	33	8	*	*	N/A	26
31	University of Washington, Seattle	52	27	28	*	*	*	29	*
33	University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa	51	25	31	29	2	18	20	9
34	University of Arizona, Tucson	49	32	28	2	+	+	49	22
35	Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana	45	22	40	*	9	10	21	*
36	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville	41	31	45	*	17	24	18	25
37	George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia	40	39	34	12	+	+	46	28
38	Boston University in Massachusetts	39	39	38	*	+	+	35	11
39	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	38	48	31	*	35	35	33	*
40	Ohio State University, Columbus	35	27	+	35	7	9	37	32
41	University of Maryland, College Park	34	37	44	*	*	*	*	24
42	Florida State University, Tallahassee	33	39	+	*	38	38	*	*
42	Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge	33	*	46	*	3	5	*	*
42	Rutgers University, Newark in New Jersey	33	*	37	12	*	*	*	*
42	University of New Hampshire, Durham	33	39	40	7	*	*	*	*
46	Pennsylvania State University, University Park	32	45	46	11	28	14	28	*
47	Southern Illinois University, Carbondale	31	27	48	*	14	17	*	*
47	Texas State University, San Marcos	31	*	40	*	+	+	*	*
49	University of Mississippi, Oxford	31	+	40	*	18	25	16	*
50	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	30	34	+	*	4	6	27	*
50	Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond	30	+	38	*	31	32	*	*
50	Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg	30	34	+	*	8	10	34	*

Note: An honorable mention goes to Bowling Green State University, a two-year program in Ohio that ranks among the top fifty programs in selectivity (#47), total funding (#46), annual funding (#45), and poetry (#48), and received pluses in overall votes and fiction. For a ranking of the additional eighty-eight full-residency MFA programs, click here.