<p>I've recently gotten accepted here for J-School and can go almost entirely for free after all the financial aid I've gotten through dozens of different things. Is Journalism good here? Will it get me a job/internships at anywhere big? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I want to preface this by noting that I wasn’t a journalism major but I did work for the student newspaper for a year.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say it’s “good” here, nothing that would be ranked. We have a small department while other colleges have whole buildings. There’s some difficulty in senior year trying to getting a spot in a Multimedia Journalism class needed to graduate, which frustrates some people. And if you want to get in front of a camera instead of writing copy for a magazine, our school news program is criminally unsupported and relegated to a tiny closet of a studio on the second floor of the Student Union.</p>
<p>That said, the weekly student magazine has a GREAT adviser and has won several awards for investigative journalism. You can check it out at upressonline.com, though it’s summer so content is going up very slowly until Fall semester starts up and the full staff is back. They take it very seriously and you can get paid like $8/hour up to 20 hours a week to work there.</p>
<p>I’m not sure where all the alumni end up or their job outlook, though I think a number of them end up working for local newspapers (e.g. Sun Sentinel) and magazines. I’m not aware of anybody working for, say, the New York Times, but those people could very well be out there. I think it very much depends on your personal writing ability. If you put together an impressive portfolio, you’d think you could get hired somewhere great regardless of where you went to school. A friend of mine was an English major here and ended up writing for an art magazine in New York simply by dropping off a couple pieces he had done for the school paper here.</p>
<p>The University Press adviser does spend at least half of each staff meeting talking about how to improve your resume, how to succeed on interviews and has even set-up meetings every year with people he knows to get his staff out in front of people who could potentially employ them.</p>
<p>It doesn’t compare to the J-school at UF but if it’s between this and another school of similar caliber, don’t fret if you want to come here. It won’t be top shelf but you can definitely make it work.</p>