<p>Urgent - Having a hard time deciding between these two.</p>
<p>Which college is better for communications (namely, print journalism)?</p>
<p>Which college is better for film production?</p>
<p>Boston University:
I’m planning on double majoring in journalism and film production in college. I’ve heard, but not officially or from any real ‘worthy’ sources, that BU has a better communications dept - one of the best in the nation.</p>
<p>However, BU’s film dept does not allow students to start actual production and working with a camera until their junior year. How important are those years of general electives?</p>
<p>Emerson College:
This school is focused primarily on communications and the arts. But does this mean their journalism and film departments are good/better than BU?</p>
<p>I’m in a real crunch to decide which one to attend, because the financial aid deadline for Emerson is due very, very, very soon. I’d like to become a filmmaker after college, but studying journalism is a real important endeavor to me.</p>
<p>I’m really unsure as to which school to choose, though I am leaning a bit towards Emerson because its curriculum seems to fit my educational preference - basing this off my k-12 career, I tend to pursue my own interests (which isn’t restricted to journalism or film, if that’s what may be implied) and am currently rather bored with having to spend time in the math, science and language courses I am taking for my senior year (that doesn’t mean I hate any of them.)</p>
<p>Yeah, you're beat man... Haha just kiddin I really dunno the answer cause I have no knowledge of anything in that field. Uh.. all I can say is the city of Boston will afford you opportunities in communications regardless of what school you attend. I always knew Boston had a great communications program and didn't even know that Emerson was a school "focused on communication and the arts". So maybe that says somethin?</p>
<p>According to my boyfriend, who is a Film and Television major, they get to start using cameras during their sophomore year. I do know that our Communication school is considered (especially by the industry) to be one of the best in the country. </p>
<p>Unfortunately I don't know much about Emerson. My only guess would be that BU probably has greater networking/internship/study abroad opportunities because it's bigger. </p>
<p>Of course I also don't know how much of a factor financial aid is for you.</p>
<p>Hope that helps and good luck with your decision!</p>
<p>I don't know that you can double inside COM. You'll have to ask them. </p>
<p>COM has a liberal arts requirement. If that's not you, then go to Emerson. BU is a better known program in both areas.</p>
<p>Well if I were you i would choose Emerson, cause it has the best communication programs. Also depending on the amount of students in emerson since its small, you have clases of just 20 students. In bu their are classes with a lot amount of students. It depends on your study habbits in emerson in emerson they will give u a lot of work but test would be not that hard. In Bu is not much work but at same time the test are much harder.</p>
<p>If you look at the personnels from local Boston tv stations, ton of them are Emerson graduates. I don't know the placement outside of New England, but it seems to me that Emerson has a solid tv journalism program. No comment on BU.</p>
<p>Just a note about BU class sizes. The average class size at BU is 28. Only 4% of our classes are over 100.</p>
<p>You really need to understand that in college some classes are better small and others are better as lectures. You'll get huge lectures at Yale but those tend to be among the best classes - though the sections often suck. The benefits of saying "all our classes are small" are fictional. It depends on which classes are big and which are small. Most of your classes at BU will be small.</p>
<p>A typical "better as a lecture" is microecon or intro to anthro or most other introductory classes.</p>
<p>most production classes in the film/tv department have 16 students. as lostandfound5 mentioned, the average class size at BU is small. in COM, it's even smaller.</p>
<p>at BU, the earliest u can take a production class is sophomore year. the film department has 2 required classes. i took one of them in spring of my freshman year and the other in the fall of my sophomore year. i'm currently a sophomore taking a video production class (i could've also chosen film production).</p>
<p>however, just because u can't take a production class until sophomore year doesn't mean u can't touch cameras until then. u can still join BUTV and help out with their shows. in fact, this year two freshmen are the executive producers of a brand new show. (<a href="http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/04/10/News/Freshmen.Get.Taste.Of.Tv.Programming-2832132.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/04/10/News/Freshmen.Get.Taste.Of.Tv.Programming-2832132.shtml</a>)</p>
<p>at emerson, there are 5 required theory courses before u take a production class. (<a href="http://www.emerson.edu/media_arts/undergraduate/BA-in-Visual-and-Media-Arts.cfm)%5B/url%5D">http://www.emerson.edu/media_arts/undergraduate/BA-in-Visual-and-Media-Arts.cfm)</a>. i may be wrong in whether u have to take those in the order they mapped out though.</p>
<p>overall, emerson is geared only towards communications. BU's COM philosophy is that all students should have a strong liberal arts background in addition to their practical experience with production. if you're absolutely positive that u would not enjoy those required liberal arts classes (and that avoiding them is your top priority), i think emerson may be better for u. they probably still have some requirements though.</p>
<p>u also need to compare their campuses, locations, size, and financial aid, among other things.</p>