At the English majors at Suffolk University, you’ll learn to articulate strong points of view, compose your thoughts in an organized and creative way, identify major literary themes, and draw lessons from groundbreaking works that illuminate aspects of the human condition. Suffolk is also home to a branch of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society.

You’ll benefit from Suffolk’s proximity to the Boston Public Library, the country’s first large public library. Boston has been home to legendary writers for generations, including Emerson, Alcott, Thoreau, and Plath.

Careers

A major in English is excellent preparation for a wide range of career paths:

  • Communications and Marketing
  • Journalism
  • Nonprofits
  • Higher Education Administration
  • Business
  • Graduate School

Our graduates work at publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the Harvard Kennedy School, the City of Boston, and the development office at Massachusetts General Hospital, to name a few. Others are pursuing graduate study in literature, history, and creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, New York University, Emerson College, University College London, and more.