<p>Hello please help. I am a volunteer helping HS students with college issues. Our Val wants to study publishing. She believes she needs to be in NYC or Boston for this. We are a med size costal SC town. I am concerned about culture shock for her and that she is selling herself short since the college she favors is quite small, takes 50% of applicants & only 5% major in publishing. Please advise on the best colleges for publishing (she has great SAT, GPA, activities etc)</p>
<p>By publishing, do you mean journalism?</p>
<p>I think publishing is a seperate major</p>
<p>anyone have a suggested program or college?</p>
<p>Rochester Institute of Technology has a printing/publishing major.</p>
<p>Very few colleges have a publishing major: [College</a> MatchMaker: Results](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board). Most people go into english for the one end or business for the other.</p>
<p>It is great that you volunteer. Erin’s Dad is right. Assuming she means book or magazine publishing, they hire literature, creative writing and journalism grads from top schools for the content jobs and MBAs for the financial jobs. Competition is fierce and pay is low, and many publishers are failing, due to the internet and tv.
Some kids do experience culture shock in those cities, but generations of kids from small towns all over America have succeeded there, too.
If she is a superstar as you say, she should look at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore and Wesleyan.
She should read The Devil Wears Prada–and The Prince of Tides (by and about a Coastal SC writer living in NYC).</p>
<p>she should just go to a liberal arts school, then she can spend the summer after graduation at one of the schools that offer publishing programs – NYU, University of Denver, and Radcliffe (unless they call the program Harvard now). These programs all bring in industry people who run workshops on the different areas of specializations and she will get the contacts she needs to try to get her first job!</p>
<p>This is what I did many years ago! She would be doing herself a great disservice in life to focus so narrowly in a publishing major. She is much better off going to a fine liberal arts school where her skills in critical thinking and writing are finely honed.</p>
<p>The Radcliffe or NYU programs would also give her a taste of the cities. Great advice!</p>
<p>I know someone who went to one of those certificate programs listed in post $8 after she graduated from a small LAC. This is where she made some professional contacts and landed a fantastic job that she has held for several years. This person’s undergraduate major was English.</p>
<p>The Radcliffe program is now run through Columbia’s Journalism school, so it’s also in NYC.</p>
<p>I seem like a similar applicant to her, only I don’t want to major in Publishing, I might have it as a minor. Emerson College is a Boston school of Communications that’s really good and offers a Bachelor’s in Publishing, and so does Rochester Institute of Technology. Those are the only 2 colleges I know of where she can get her Bachelors in Publishing as a major, but a number of schools offer it as a minor. I would suggest Columbia.</p>