<p>My daughter is interested in programs in broadcasting. Do you know of any universities/colleges that offer an undergraduate degree in broadcasting/communication?</p>
<p>Columbia Broadcasting School and DeVry</p>
<p>1000’'s do. Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications is one of the best. BU also is one of the top.</p>
<p>Montclair State University in NJ (that’s where DH & I got our degrees in the 80s.) Ithaca, Syracuse, Columbia, NYU all have well regarded programs. Really most schools do have a program. They often get nested under Speech & Theatre or Journalism. Is she looking at a particular type of broadcasting such as sports or news?</p>
<p>Make sure you are looking at internship opportunities as well as what the hands on requirements are for the degree. For example, in our senior year we were required to have 150+ hours of out of classroom production time per semester. And our advisors were hooked into connections in NYC that lead to internships at Good Morning America (me) NBC Sports (DH) David Letterman, General Hospital, etc.</p>
<p>University of Missouri, Columbia has a top ranked program and is really hands on.</p>
<p>Not sure, but I am sure other posters do know…Do Boston University, Hofstra, and Quinnipiac also have good programs for this?</p>
<p>If you mean broadcast journalism, the University of Missouri and Syracuse are generally considered the best.</p>
<p>Mizzou’s Journalism School is the oldest in the country and operates an NBC affilaite TV station as well as a NPR radio station and a daily newspaper/news website–all run by the faculty as editors and the students as reporters. </p>
<p>I can tell you from personal experience that the “Mizzou Mafia,” the nickname for the connections across the country between Mizzou graduates, has kept me employed for 35 years.</p>
<p>Here are the admission requirements:
[Missouri</a> School of Journalism: Admissions](<a href=“http://journalism.missouri.edu/undergraduate/admissions.html]Missouri”>http://journalism.missouri.edu/undergraduate/admissions.html)</p>
<p>I know that Syracuse has the best radio program and is very selective. A friend of mine got into the university, for example, but was rejected from the radio program. Hope that helps if that’s what you want to study.</p>
<p>Also Ohio University and Ball State (IN)</p>
<p>What do you mean by “broadcasting”? Does she want to be on-the-air as an anchor or actor? Working behind the scenes on a news show? Writing scripts? Doing computer graphics? You know when you go to the movies and the credits go on for ten minutes in increasingly tiny fonts? She needs to figure out which of those categories she’s interested in!</p>
<p>Throwing in Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. The Journalism program is really good and has some good alumni (David Muir, ABC News). You are required to have a a minor and learn a second language.</p>
<p>I know a lot of Journalism majors who work for the newspaper, The Ithacan, but also work with the TV station, Newswatch 16 (on ICTV), and then who work on publications like Buzzsaw.</p>
<p>Your daughter should figure out what kind of broadcasting/communications she wants to do.</p>
<p>Add Northwestern to the list of the best schools with TV journalism programs. At the NBC O&O where I worked for years, management recruited grads from Mizzou, Syracuse and Northwestern. But yes, that Mizzou Mafia is quite the powerhouse in TV…</p>
<p>USC’s Annenberg School of Communications has a very strong broadcasting major.</p>
<p>Add to the many fine schools above: Chapman University/ Dodge College of Film and Media Arts has a TV broadcast division, out near Los Angeles</p>
<p>The Walter Cronkie School of Broadcasting at Arizona State University.</p>
<p>University of Montana and Michigan State also have J schools.</p>