<p>eighteenforluck - you're right, and I apologize. I was assuming you were an undergraduate. Now I realize you must be going into grad school. Annengerg at USC is the undergraduate school.</p>
<p>There are many undergraduate schools that offer journalism / communications majors. Most of them have been mentioned here already.</p>
<p>Actually, I've looked into the comm department at Penn. It IS an undergrad program. </p>
<p>Anymore ideas??? Safeties especially??????</p>
<p>I would really like some advice from people who are comm majors and where they are going. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Syracuse is another good one.</p>
<p>Yeah, I looked at Syracuse. Very good program, but I'm not very into the social scene there (too many JAPs and snobby people, I've heard) and the weather is something I'm not looking forward too.</p>
<p>haha that's why i'm not looking at it (weather, location, apathetic students).</p>
<p>i pretty much listed all my faves earlier...how about Brown? i know they don't have a Comm school but they are well known for their writing departments.</p>
<p>UMichigan?</p>
<p>columbia journalism is grad only</p>
<p>Penn has an undergrad comm major and it has Annenberg East for graduate school (Annenberg West is located at USC, known for it's undergrad)</p>
<p>In my opinion the top undergrad journalism schools are (in know particular order):</p>
<p>University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Northwestern
Syracuse University
University of Missouri - Columbia
Boston University
USC
Indiana University - Bloomington</p>
<p>UW-Madison has a highly ranked j-school. <a href="http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/undergrad/about.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/undergrad/about.html</a></p>
<p>The Anneberg School of Communications is the name of the departments of comm. at BOTH USC and Penn. Reserach it a bit. Also, I don't understand why people would suggest regional matriculation for undergraduates in journalism or communications. That would be more important for graduate school.</p>
<p>I don't know how good the program is, but have you looked at fordham?</p>
<p>I've looked at Fordham a little bit, but I'm trying to stay away from schools "like that". I want a more diverse student body, and Fordham is very homogenous from what I've seen/heard. </p>
<p>Any thoughts on this NYU dilemma? My parents absolutely will not let me go there. I don't have my heart set on it or anything, but it makes me want to go there more now that it's forbidden!!!</p>
<p>why won't they let you go to NYU?</p>
<p>They want me to experience a real college campus, and don't want me to live in New York. They think it's too unsafe, dirty, and distracting for college. </p>
<p>I don't even know if I want to go there, it's just something I was thinking about.</p>
<p>Have you thought of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut.</p>
<p>Suburban setting but 10 min from New Haven( Yale collegetown)</p>
<p>Small-medium size not too competitive at all but have heard it looks and feels like a country club. Sleeping Giant Mountain and park very close for hiking trails, bikking etc.)</p>
<p>Also, Emerson College in Boston? I know you said no city but thought I'd mention it because it looks like a great communications school.</p>
<p>Ithaca College has an amazing broadcast opportunities, which was my main reason for going there. The big problem is if you decide you want to change your major, you'll probably want to leave. That's what happened to me.</p>
<p>I'm going to be a communications major also. I've seen about all the schools on the east coast and going from your criteria I'd day at least visit Fordham and Ithaca. Ithaca is in a beautiful college town that they share with Cornell. The communications students are awesome, not homogenous at all. Fordham has a nice campus in the Bronx with a campus also in NYC, close enough for great internships but far enough out for parents. When we visited we went to the Bronx zoo after(it's right there)and it just gave my parents enough of a warm fuzzy feeling about the area.</p>
<p>Looks like two people have already mentioned it, but Quinnipiac is /great/ for communications. The campus is beautiful and only 5-10 minutes from New Haven; they're good at settings students up with internships in Hartford, New Haven, New York, Providence, and Boston; selective admissions without being insanely competitive.</p>
<p>If you want smaller, Marist is has a pretty good communications program. It's a working-class, down-to-Earth student body, and it's a good school for "real world experience." The campus is small but nice, and their new library is terrific.</p>
<p>Definitely look at Quinnipiac, though. Wonderful school. I'm from Connecticut and have had several friends go there, and they all absolutely love it. I've also toured it before and really liked what I saw.</p>
<p>Fordham is actually very diverse for a private institution and it's in the middle of NYC surrounded by the most diverse communities in the country. Approximately 30% of each class are multicultural students, how is this not diverse? If you want to pursue academic and professional opportunities in Communication and Media Studies, you should be considering every school in say NYC or LA. The opportunities in those cities far surpass anywhere else in the country and even the world. Additionally, if a program might be strong elsewhere but not in those cities, you might find any program advantage cancels out with the lack of internship experience offered. Check out Fordham and Loyola Marymount in addition to the other NY and LA schools you are already looking at and you may be pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>Here in KY, Western Kentucky has a great communications&journalism program. The city that it's in, Bowling Green, will likely be a turn off because the whole city is suburban and has a small-town attitude. Most of the broadcasters in the markets in the Ohio Valley have degrees from Western KY or Indiana.</p>