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Colleges with a Winning Tradition in Speech and Debate

Your family calls you argumentative, but you just debate to win. Here are the schools that will welcome your speech skills with open arms.

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• Queen's U (Canada)
• Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
• Baylor University (Waco, TX)
• Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
• Boston University (Boston, MA)
• Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
• Brigham Young University — Provo (Provo, UT)
• Brown University (Providence, RI)
• California State University — Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
• California State University — Northridge (Northridge, CA)
• Carroll College (Helena, MT)
• Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
• College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
• Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Creighton University (Omaha, NE)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• Duke University (Durham, NC)
• Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
• Emporia State University (Emporia, KS)
• Fordham University (New York, NY)
• George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)
• Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)
• Hampden–Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney, VA)
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY)
• Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA)
• James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA)
• John Carroll University (University Heights, OH)
• Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
• Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS)
• Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR)
• Liberty University (Lynchburg, VA)
• Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• McGill University (Montreal, CAN)
• Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
• Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ)
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
• Point Loma Nazarene University (San Diego, CA)
• Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• Rice University (Houston, TX)
• SUNY — Binghamton (Binghamton, NY)
• Seattle University (Seattle, WA)
• Southern Illinois University — Carbondale (Carbondale, IL)
• Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• The George Washington University (Washington, DC)
• The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
• The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CAN)
• The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
• United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)
• United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD)
• University of Alaska Anchorage (Anchorage, AK)
• University of Alberta (Edmonton, CAN)
• University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
• University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
• University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
• University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
• University of La Verne (La Verne, CA)
• University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA)
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
• University of Minnesota — Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
• University of Missouri — Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
• University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
• University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
• University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario, CAN)
• University of Portland (Portland, OR)
• University of Redlands (Redlands, CA)
• University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, CAN)
• University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)
• University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA)
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC)
• Washburn University (Topeka, KS)
• Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)
• Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA)
• Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)
• Wichita State University (Wichita, KS)
• Willamette University (Salem, OR)
• William Jewell College (Liberty, MO)
• Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• York University (Toronto, Ontario, CAN)

Source: The College Finder research, including www.americanforensics.org, http://cedadebate.org, http://cas.bethel.edu, http://flynn.debating.net, www.whitman.edu, and www.groups.wfu.edu/NDT.