<p>Hi</p>
<p>I want to major in something relating to Journalism or Communications. I also would like to go to an Ivy League School or at least another prestigious one. Which colleges have this type of program?</p>
<p>NORTHWESTERN is king in those areas.</p>
<p>As a former journalist and a journalism professor currently, I would advise you to get a broad liberal arts background. You will need it if you are going to pursue a serious print journalism career. Second, when you are choosing a school, take a close look at those that have daily student newspapers. That's where you will get your best journalism education.</p>
<p>I agree with Carlmom...Medill at Northwestern is regarded as the best, but I'd say get broad liberal arts before that. Journalism is very amorphous...and you choose what you want, so you can apply journalism to many things. Add it on to something.</p>
<p>I'll put in a good word for Ithaca College. If you want to do broadcast journalism, they have an excellent program. Moreso due to ECs than classes. You can be on their award-winning radio and the television stations as early as your freshman year. Also you start in the journalisim program freshman year (as opposed to some schools that start it junior year).</p>
<p>However, if you aren't positive you want to do journalism, then I don't suggest going. I realized I don't want to do journalism, and I am transferring out.</p>
<p>columbia + northwestern.</p>
<p>Columbia, although they do not offer a journalism undergraduate major, is generally considered to be one of the top 2 graduate journalism schools in the nation. If you want a broad liberal arts education (the Columbia Core) and then focus on a major in communications and then go to journalism school, you should seriously looking into Columbia for your education.</p>
<p>Northwestern (UG) and Columbia (G)</p>
<p>top five in no particular order: columbia, northwestern (medill), penn (annenberg east), USC (annenberg west), missouri.</p>
<p>For undergrad i would obviously remove columbia and penn from the top 5 journalism programs and definately place Syracuse (Newhouse) and UNC-Chapel Hill among the other 3</p>
<p>i would agree with that since the ivies are grad only.</p>
<p>so is it better to focus on liberal arts as an undergrad and then go to a great journalism grad school, or to major in journalism (perhaps with a second major in a liberal arts area) for undergrad and get more hands on work experience and interships earlier on?</p>
<p>Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia is a highly regarded program that is always nationally ranked. While the University of Georgia might not be as "ivy" as you are looking for, the honors college is highly regarded and has even been compared by US News and World reports to an Ivy League Education at half the cost. You'd also have a fun four years in Athens :)</p>
<p>there are huge success stories either way. go with quality and you can't go wrong. i did missouri undergrad and had multiple large city internships and job offers and worked in cincinnati, washington and miami. others do the liberal arts route and then do the on the job training option.</p>
<p>BU has great communications major.</p>
<p>at northwestern's journalism program.. they get you to have a good liberal arts base too.. you're required to take plenty of other courses in arts and sciences, humanities. history. etc. in addition to journalsim classes (there are only two journalsim classes freshmen year)</p>
<p>that's true in virtually all programs and certainly all AEJMC accredited ones. the liberal arts base is the cornerstone...you must be grounded in subjects like history and political science to be credible as a journalist.</p>
<p>at northwestern's journalism program.. they get you to have a good liberal arts base too</p>
<p>-To an extent, yes . It is VERY pre-professional</p>