<p>As I've posted here before, I'm currently interested in journalism, and want to major in the field in college. I still have about 1.5/2 years before I need to start sending in applications, so while the night is young, what are the top (or at least good) journalism colleges around?</p>
<p>EDIT: I should have said colleges/universities</p>
<p>The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, University of Missouri (Columbia), and Newhouse at Syracuse are, from what I’ve heard, regarded as the best in the country. I believe Newhouse is more geared towards broadcast journalism, and Medill more towards print journalism. Not sure about Mizzou. You should consider what type of journalism you want to go into though, because different schools have different specialties.</p>
<p>Also Annenberg at USC. They are really on cutting edge of new digital journalism, fantastic broadcast journalism program.</p>
<p>Is Annenberg wickedly hard to get into?</p>
<p>Mizzou used to own a commercial television station. I don’t know whether it still does. Kansas is usually top ten.</p>
<p>Yes, Annenberg is hard to get into</p>
<p>Can you still make it okay in journalism, even if you don’t go to a top journalistic based college?</p>
<p>Jornalism is a hard career to become successful in since, people are not buying Newspapers and Magazine’s like they used to. Internet Journalism is great to get into. </p>
<p>Syracuse which is a private university in Upstate New York is the best in Journalism.</p>
<p>Toxic93 is right about the difficulty. I still recommend looking at Annenberg at USC. They have updated their focus to include digital journalism as part of their program. In comparing Syracuse and USC in this regard, USC is much more cutting edge and on top of the changes in journalism. (Both excellent, however)</p>
<p>What kind of requirements are needed to get into those colleges? Can I get by with 2 years of school newspaper, 2 years of volunteering at a radio station, a kick ass GPA with Honors/AP classes?</p>
<p>You’d have to check individual requirements for each colleges’ journalism schools online. A lot offer direct admission, but you have to have certain GPA, test scores, etc. I know that the University of Missouri is one of such schools. But even if you don’t get in as a direct admit, you can always get into the j-school after completing your gen ed requirements.</p>
<p>Medill @ NU, again, is really intense. The profs will fail great papers for minor typos, I hear.</p>
<p>Columbia has a good journalism program, I heard.</p>
<p>northwestern, nyu</p>
<p>Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Iowa 10char</p>
<p>Definately University of Iowa.
I also would say Syracuse as a second suggestion.</p>
<p>I thought you said you wanted to go to a state school to save money…</p>
<p>Haha, no. It’s hard to make it in journalism these days, you have to be top notch to get a job out of college and the pay is…eh… everyone I went to j school with (not at a top notch school) is either unemployed (including me), switched majors, working in a different career or trying to make it in grad school. Some of them freelance too. </p>
<p>The top schools in my opinion are: Mizzou (I looked there for grad school, great program), Syracuse, Columbia</p>
<p>What exactly are you wanting to go into? Print? Internet? Broadcast?</p>
<p>^I’m looking into into either internet or broadcast journalism, more towards broadcast.</p>
<p>I’m not looking to work necessarily for a big time news network like CNN or NBC, but more like a local city/state news station. In my state, Washington, Q13FOX is the local network, and it broadcasts in Western Washington (From about Vancouver, through Seattle, and farther up north), that’s something I could (and want) to see myself doing.</p>