<p>What are some good journalism schools? I do not want a school in the middle of no where, I like big cities. I do not have excellent grades, mostly B's....</p>
<p>In Dan Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada<a href="2006">/I</a>, Anne Hathaway's character, Andy Sachs, had attended **Northwestern University* in Chicago =)</p>
<p>Fun fact of the day.</p>
<p>Mizzou! it has the best print J-school in the nation.
media-syracuse
and northwestern is very good.</p>
<p>Northwestern's Medill is known for being one of the best, and also one of the most selective. Chicago's right next door if you want big city. Here's a good resource:</p>
<p>has anyone heard of JSchool in Brisbane, Australia?
it's supposed to be the best journalism school in the country, but I haven't much else about it.</p>
<p>Arizona State has the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. I've heard different things about it though. Some say it's really good; others say the students can't even grasp the idea of grammar.</p>
<p>Phoenix isn't much of a "city" though. Tempe is pretty nice though.</p>
<p>Missouri-Columbia (one of the best, but Columbia is right in the middle of the state, not a big city)
Northwestern (there's some issues there right now that you may want to look into, but it has the location you want)
Syracuse
UNC-Chapel Hill
Maryland
Ohio University
A lot of Big 10 schools</p>
<p>ball state
IU
UF
USC
Northwestern</p>
<p>Northwestern, UNC--Chapel Hill, Washington State University, U of Oregon...</p>
<p>i do not think i have strong enough grades for Northwestern, i heard chapel hill is almost all instate and i live in california...</p>
<p>^ Yep. The quota for OOS students at UNC is 18%, I believe.</p>
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In Dan Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Anne Hathaway's character, Andy Sachs, had attended Northwestern University in Chicago =)</p>
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<p>I love that movie, but the director was David Frankel not Dan Frankel, according to Wikipedia.</p>
<p>Some good Florida j-schools are Uni of FL and UCF.</p>
<p>We were told by an admissions counselor at a highly rated journalism school that the Top 10 (in alphabetical order, so as not to engender fights on that score) are: Maryland, Miami (Florida), Missouri, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio U., Penn State, Southern Cal, Syracuse and Texas.</p>
<p>Of those, for a B student, Missoui is a logical target. You can get into Mizzou with a 24 on the ACT or 1100 on the SAT (writing section isn't considered), and apply to the j school after sophmore year (below these numbers, there's a sliding scale based on class rank, but if you meet them, you're in with a C average), or get directly into the j school as a freshman with a 29 on the ACT or 1280 on the SAT. A 33 on the ACT or 1470 on the SATs will get you into the Walter Williams Scholars Program in journalism. These are not predictions--if you make the minimum test score, you are in.</p>
<p>Mizzou has a fabulous journalism program. My daughter, who had a good to excellent chance of getting into most, if not all of the schools on the above list, almost went to Missouri before choosing another of the listed schools. Her interest in Missouri, and the fact that there was no sweating out any admissions decision, allowed us to explore the other schools and eliminate those she compared unfavorably to Missouri before ever applying. Ultimately, she applied to only two schools--Missouri and Maryland (where she is now)--thus saving us enormous headaches in the admissions process (not to mention several hundred dollars in application fees).</p>
<p>The downsides to Mizzou are: (1) it's not very diverse from the standpoint of student body makeup; (2) the j school is much more highly thought of than any other program on campus, causing some issues if you change your mind; and (3) while Columbia is a really nice college town, and there are things to do there, it's 2 hours from a city of any size (St. Louis or Kansas City). The upsides are: (1) the program, which affords you access to the town newspaper (Mizzou own it), the NBC affiliate for middle Missouri (again, Mizzou owns it), etc. is unbelievable from the standpoint of affording practical experience; (2) the campus is very nice, as are the people; and (3) it's a pretty affordable place in today's modern education landscape. What you have to decide is what's a priority to you. If you have other options in the Top 10 (Ohio U. may be one--have heard very good things about it--and Syracuse may be another, but only IF you don't apply directly to the j school, but instead to the liberal arts school and then try to transfer over), these become choices.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>A much more fact based film--"The Insider" was based on the work of Lowell Bergman--Wisconsin grad and Pulitzer Prize winner. UW alums have won about 30 Pulitzer prizes. Don't know how that stacks up with other schools. Pretty well I think.</p>
<p>since nobody has mentioned it yet, I want to point out to the OP that you don't need to major in journalism to become a journalist. In fact the media is flooded with apps from kids who majored in journalism or english but have little other knowledge to bring to the table (and who are frightened by math/science). If you want to look like the rest of the herd pick those majors. Some get jobs, but many struggle.</p>
<p>What really jumps out is a kid with experience in the media (writing for the school paper, summer job at a paper, intern in television, etc) but majored in something that gives them an ability to understand the world out there.
So if you have an aptitude for science or languages it would be better to major on one of those fields AND pursue journalism via the school paper and internships. Lots of humanities majors are scared of numbers and science, a reporter who can cover the science beat or businesses that have a tech product are much rarer than journalism majors. Same with foreign languages; how many reporters in this increasingly international world can speak anything but english? Someone with a business or accounting degree has a leg up, too; open the paper and see how many articles are about business and the economy, usually written by people who've never taken a single class in the area who are at the mercy of the PR staffs that want to spin what is reported.</p>
<p>And even if you're not interested in this route, you can still major in anything (and at any school) and get into journalism. What's going to matter is what you do while in college, not your major. Every college has a school newspaper, and by working with your career center and writing letters on you own you can get summer internships and jobs in the media.</p>
<p>One caveat to mikemac's post--many j schools are much more helpful in the way of contacts, providing internship opportunities, etc. to those actually majoring in journalism, as opposed to other subjects at the the school. And, in this media environment, who you know is almost as important (if not in some cases more important) than what you know. That said, most of the highly ranked j programs allow, and even encourge, double majors for the reasons mikemac suggests. My daughter is doing that, and it seems very reasonable and useful (also helps if you change your mind and decide not to pursue journalism).</p>
<p>thank you...</p>
<p>so which of these schools fit this</p>
<ol>
<li>Are good J-schools</li>
<li>Accept B students</li>
<li>are IN a big city</li>
</ol>
<p>If you need all three criteria, your search gets a little tougher. Arizona State has gotten some pretty good reviews, and Tempe is suburban Phoenix. You can get in there as a B student. If you want to go smaller, I've heard good things about Emerson which is, I believe, in or near Boston. If you want to be within an hour of a big city, Kansas has a good program, and is 45 minutes from Kansas City; Indiana has a good program, and is less than an hour from Indianapolis.</p>
<p>It's hard to fully answer your question without knowing more information. If your Bs are in honors and AP courses, and you have very good test scores, Miami (Florida) may be a possibility.</p>
<p>Basically, you may have to make some choices here. If all three criteria are huge for you, then ASU or perhaps Emerson are places to strongly consider. If city matters most, and these schools don't strike your fancy, you might want to take mikemac's approach, go to a school in a city, major in something other than journalism, and try to ride the school paper or broadcast media into the profession. If j school matters most, you can't go wrong at Mizzou, or at some of the others I've mentioned. </p>
<p>I hope you can satisfy all of your criteria. Keep in mind though what the Rolling Stones once said: "You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need."</p>
<p>Somebody mentioned IU.... Indiana University, methinks?</p>