Anyone with current information/insights comparing any two or three of these to each other (they are in alphabetical order here, not any order of preference), for:
(1) Communications (probably Strat Comm, Advertisting/PR) and/or
(2) the quality of their Honors College / Honors Program experience?
We’ve now visited all but one of them.
Thanks so much in advance.
I’m interested in hearing the responses here as this is very much what I’m interested in. From what I know, Mizzou and Emerson would probably be the best, but I could very well be wrong.
That’s great @ntk131998, we can learn together.
Temple has a great communications and many famous alumni that have graduated with a degree in communications like Kevin Nagendhi. The honors program is excellent and has a support staff that helps students pursue both their academic and professional interests. I’m personally not a communications major, but I can speak about the Honors program.
hi ohiovalley, i can’t compare programs because my son settled on Temple very early. if memory serves me right, Indiana has a very strong broadcasting major so my guess is they would be strong in communications across the board. honors at Temple is great. he has really liked the honors classes. my son gets all sorts of emails about options from the honors school, priority class selection and other perks. he and other honors students met with the Dean of Communications and other professors this spring for a very informal lunch where they all exchanged ideas and got to know each better. Media studies is his major,(which in in Communications school too), they are aware he is honors and offered him help and options in setting up stipend opportunities for the summer, reminded him study abroad was a an option, and he got emails to get in touch with them as needed to set up the professor or dept approval needed to take advantage of the stipend.
i personally am thrilled at the quality of the honors program at Temple. that being said, i suspect the schools above, esp the state schools, would have strong honors programs too. Depaul is probably great with students across the board and i think i know of a kid at Emerson who is happy there, but they are not in communications program. my experience when looking at colleges is that many of the bigger schools cater to the honors kids so they get some and perhaps many of the benefits they would at a smaller more prestigious school and the big school has the benefit of enrolling a top notch student who will likely be a successful alumni some day.
i am guessing you put this post on all the schools above so you will get school specific info from people enrolled at those programs. which is a great idea. personally, i think your kids will end up in a good honors program regardless of where they choose to go to school. i would more focus on the quality of what each communications programs offer, connections, etc, adn assume the honors dept will be good unless you hear otherwise. also, where would your kid like to live and what school fits him or her the best? for example, i thought USC would have been the ideal school for my kid with his career desires. however, my son was much more comfortable at Temple and wanted to stay on east coast. my son felt Temple was a better fit for him and ended up not even applying to USC.
it’s great you as a family have taken the time to look at all these schools!!! but def check to see if your kid feels one of the school is a good fit or maybe there are a few. and cost is an issue too. for example, if they can to go to one school for 20K a year and another is 40K, lean toward the 20K school. Similarly. some of your school choices make me think your kid may be in the national merit running. if so, they can go to ky for a very nice price tag. other issues, since your kid has options, is that indiana and mizzou are going to have very strong nationwide alumni connections, which never hurts. so for that issue alone, i would give both of them checkmarks in the plus column if your kid likes those schools. but bottom line is, see where kid is leaning, if they have narrowed it down to 2 to 3 schools and visiting those schools again is an option, make every effort to so. please let us know where your kid ends up!
thanks @ctl987 ! this is so valuable!