<p>Northwestern:
I love the campus and college town. Great education, good on resume. Plus, Medill is one of the top journalism schools.
The cost: $50,000 a year</p>
<p>University of Missouri (I know, I spelled it wrong in the title.) :
Best journalism school. Also, wouldn't be hard to get good grades without working too hard. Plus, got into the top, honors programs. But it is a worse school in everything else. So I'd better not. change my major.
The cost: $24,000 a year. I might be a little in debt afterwards, but it shouldn’t be awful to pay off. No money for grad school.</p>
<p>University of Alabama:
Got into the honors program. Not great on resume or in my area of interest.
The cost: Full ride.</p>
<p>I agree Mizzou over NU as they are equals. BUT what journalist makes 100K out of a BA program. Unless you are a TV talking head, it takes a good while to make money as a journalist you have to do grunt work for a while. </p>
<p>If you go to Alabama you can save your money, get in the honors college get a super high GPA, get involved in the student paper as soon as you get on campus so you can build your portfolio. (By the way the Crimson White is over 100 years old) By your senior year you can be Editor! Then you graduate with ZERO debt or a small debt and you can apply to the Columbia school of journalism or some other HIGH ranking MA program.</p>
<p>Mizzou’s journalism program is obviously very well reputed. But Mizzou as a university is a mid-tier ranked school with little national or international penetration. </p>
<p>The most glaring difference graduating from Medill is the Northwestern degree. Medill grads are not just journalists. They are products of a top tier school who have proven themselves skilled writers and communicators. More than half of grads ultimately go on to other careers in fields like law or business. </p>
<p>Whether the Northwestern pedigree and the doors it may open in the workforce justify an additional $100K cost is a difficult question to answer. This is a lot of debt to incur, especially in this economy.</p>
<p>mizzou’s j school will open just as many doors nationally and internationally as northwestern would. the university doesn’t have the reputation that northwestern does, but many would say that mizzou’s j school has an equal or better reputation than medill.</p>
<p>I am currently in medical school, which is expensive. I’ve said it over and over: the single best decision I’ve made in my life so far was going to the undergraduate school that gave me a full ride. By the way, one of my current classmates went to Bama on a full ride, and distinguished himself enough there to earn a scholarship to medical school. If you’re the type of student who tends to work hard and earn accolades, you can do that wherever you go.</p>
<p>Until now I had never heard of the University of Missouri nor the University of Alabama…but I guess they had to be out there…just like the University of North Dakota or University of Idaho, I imagen…</p>