What are some good colleges known for their journalism major? I don’t mean like broadcasting or spoken journalism on TV but actually writing articles. Thanks!
Syracuse, Northwestern, USC, University of Missouri, NYU are among the best known journalism programs. Note that some of the top schools in the country (Yale, Stanford, Berkeley) don’t have undergraduate journalism at all: students are encouraged to write for their (very good) student newspapers while gaining as broad a humanities background as possible.
Northwestern is definitely the most prestigious I would say, but is also one of the hardest to get into. USC also has a good journalism school, and is slightly easier to get into than NU but still difficult.
A great journalism school that is pretty easy to get into is Missouri. Missouri is consistently rated as one of the best journalism schools- some people even put it over NU- yet all you need is a 29 ACT to be an auto admit I’m pretty sure.
Emerson might be one to look at.
To @katliamom 's point, if you are interested in political journalism, Georgetown, GW, and American could be of interest.
UW-Madison has a good journalism school.
All excellent suggestions, to which I will add Washington’s journalism program:
UofSC
Univ. of Oregon is another good one.
Two other excellent programs are at Washington State (https://murrow.wsu.edu) and Arizona State (https://cronkite.asu.edu).
This is the top ten voted by working journalists.
University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of California, Berkley Graduate School of Journalism
University of Missouri, Missouri School of Journalism
Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
St. Bonaventure, The Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Northwestern University, Medill
UNC-Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Syracuse, Mizzou, and Northwestern are considered to be the best. You may also want to check-out Ithaca College in New York.
Wow, thanks guys!
You also have University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill college of journalism !