General Literature isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #735 in popularity out of 1506 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
There was only one school in Tennessee to review for the 2025 Best General Literature Schools in Tennessee ranking.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Literature Schools in Tennessee list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general literature degrees they offer, see the list below.
One of 5 majors within the Literature area of study, General Literature has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).