<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I want to pursue a career in Advertising/Marketing and I am looking for a university (preferably on the east coast) that has a strong communications program. I also want the university to be prestigious. I don't mind studying in california either. I would take in advice and suggestions with open arms!!!</p>
<p>USC I would think has a strong program.</p>
<p>I don't necessarily understand your definition of prestigious, because to someone from the middle of no where prestigious could mean the best state school in their state, and to someone else prestigious could be any top lac or ivy.</p>
<p>I also would think of Emerson in Boston, but to the general public emerson isn't a school popularly known, however their like one of the best well known schools for anything related to communications. marketing being a type of communication.</p>
<p>UNC - Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler school.</p>
<p>Syracuse - Newhouse</p>
<p>USNEWS (even though I know it's kinda crap) for Marketing
1. Wharton
2. UMich-Ann Arbor (Ross)
3. UT-Austin (McCombs)
4. UC Berkeley (Haas)
5. UNC-CH (Kenan-Flagler)
6. NYU Stern</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Please remember, though, that marketing and advertising are two separate fields. Some would argue that advertising is one component of the bigger picture of marketing, though. Marketing is a business major and advertising is a communications major, so generally their curricula are quite different.</p>
<p>Emerson College is basically a communications school, mainly theater/acting/etc. but it does offer lots of other communications majors and has a good reputation. And it is in the heart of Boston! Which is wicked awsome ; )</p>
<p>I smell a troll ("superson"? vague questions...). Sounds like one of the many college admissions or alumni reps posting here to see what kind of response their school gets in response to the "prestigious" question.</p>
<p>But anyway, especially if you are interpreting "Marketing/Advertising" as a a business discipline, I don't think Emerson's programs are as geared in that direction as a traditional business school. And, then, it's important to evaluate the undergrad experience separate from the grad experience.</p>
<p>MIT, Yale or Harvard.</p>
<p>These are the best for pretty much anything. The field people study in undergrad has very little bearing on what they end up doing.</p>
<p>jus to clarify, i am certainly not a college admissions rep or anything of the sort.</p>
<p>Emerson! good communications school</p>
<p>Post 29 in this thread has all those that ranked in marketing
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=163323&page=2&pp=15%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=163323&page=2&pp=15</a></p>