<p>Indeed, journalism at Northwestern is incredible.</p>
<p>For those interested/with the stats, you also can't go wrong with HYP. Often, the value of a HYP education is question, but there's a definite advantage in journalism (NYT is heavily HYP dominated, Time Magazine's old EIC was from Princeton and was recently replaced by...another Princetonian, etc). The actual education combined with the connections are a winning combination.</p>
<p>Amina,</p>
<p>Princedog said Northeastern which is Boston, MA (known for its amazing co-op program), not "Northwestern" which is in Evanston Illinois. Northeastern is selective (admit rate is about 40%), but not super selective like Northwestern (admit rate is about 25%).</p>
<p>I wasn't answering his post. Notice how it says "Thanks Sam."</p>
<p>US News & World Report Rankings (1996)
1. Univ. of Missouri at Columbia
2. Columbia University (N.Y.)
3. Northwestern Univ. (Medill) (Ill.)
4. Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill
5. Indiana Univ. at Bloomington
6. University of Florida
7. Ohio University (Scripps)
7. Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
9. Univ. of California at Berkeley
9. University of Kansas (White)
11. Univ. of Md. at College Park
11. University of Texas at Austin
13. Syracuse U. (Newhouse) (N.Y.)
14. Arizona State Univ. (Cronkite)
15. Univ. of Minn. at Twin Cities </p>
<p>Gourman Report 10th Ed. 1998
Top Journalism and Mass Communications Programs
1. University of Missouri-Columbia
2. Northwestern University
2. Syracuse
4. Minnesota
5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
6. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
7. University of Wisconsin-Madison
8. Ohio State University Columbus
9. Michigan State University
10. University of Southern California
11. NYU
12. Indiana University-Bloomington
13. University of Washington
14. University of Kansas
15. University of Texas at Austin
16. Kansas State
17. Marquette University
18. University of Iowa
19. University of Colorado Boulder
20. Ohio University</p>
<p>I accept the fact that others have heard different things. Just offering suggestions/personal experiences, I have no plans whatsoever to major in journalism/be a journalist so I have no personal stake in this myself. I was just saying out of two parents, both journalists, one majored in journalism, one didn't. Everyone can draw their own conclusions. I think if you know you absolutely want to be a journalist, a journalism major will suit you well. It's not necessary though, so if you aren't sure, pick something else. You can also major in something else and do a co-op program and have a job in journalism at some point. There are many options and no path is absolutely correct or better. Go with what's right as an individual.</p>
<p>Hahahaha Maximus was trying to be a smart a s s correcting Amina but he was the one who was wrong. I love when that happens.</p>
<p>Okay, my mistake.</p>
<p>Im kidding:) although it is funny when it happens</p>
<p>on the collegeboard website though it doesnt have journalism as a major at unc chapel hill or at columbia</p>
<p>Columbia Journalism is for graduates. UNC-CH I think calls it "Communications"</p>
<p>see the thread at <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=169001%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=169001</a> where this is a discussion of where to go to college in order to become a journalist and what to study.</p>