<p>Okay after graduating from college I plan on working for the entertainment industry. I want to focus on the business aspects of a tv station (mtv, vh1, e!, fox, espn), production company (lion gate films, paramount pictures), or a recording studio.</p>
<p>I mainly want to work for a tv station though. I want to create new tv show ideas, advertise it, and basically plan out the whole process. However I don't want to be a film maker, I just want to plan and market it....stuff like that.</p>
<p>So would a communications, advertising, or marketing degree be best for a career like this?</p>
<p>Also which schools provide the best job recruitment from the entertainment industry. I know USC, UCLA, and NYU are the bigity bigity bomb (i love madtv), but what are some other schools that provide good opportunities?</p>
<p>I like UMiami and SDSU ---- Would those locations be fine for job recruitment?</p>
<p>Also if you know about UCSB......how are they with job recruitment for the entertainment industry???</p>
<p>You know there's not a set position for "sit in your office and make up shows all day?" If you want to write shows, you typically have to pitch them to the exec; most shows are not developed in-house.</p>
<p>Sorry I guess I really wasn't clear on what I really wanted to do. I don't want write new tv shows (too risky of a career).... After the idea is pitched and is set to become a show I want to be part of a team and help plan out the concept of the show and advertise it to the community. I want to focus on the business/communication aspects of a show. </p>
<p>Well, I guess there really isn't a set major for what I want so what about the college part.</p>
<p>What are the best schools for it?</p>
<p>Particulary UCSB, UMiami, UCI, and SDSU.....but any other options are appreciated</p>
<p>I would recommend looking at the career websites of each school and see which companies (the entertainment companies you're interested in) recruit where.</p>
<p>I would also recommend Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as an option.</p>
<p>Try and go to the best school academically and start writing there...the connections of being at a top school could be valuable. Write for the school paper. Write scripts. If your good, things will fall into place from there. IF you are looking at the business aspect of it majoring in marketing wouldn't be a bad idea. A lot of top schools have great networks in the media industry. I'm sure NYC Television is filled with NYU grads, as with Hollywood having alot of USC people working throughout.</p>
<p>Of course, if you aren't a hot shot writer who has luck with a higher level executive, you've got to work your way up and make good deciisons to get anywhere in the TV production business.</p>
<p>The same people who conceptualize and write the show don't do the advertising campaign! A business degree with a minor in creative writing would be a good combo. For creating shows the'll look at your talent, not where you graduated from. So start writing and getting published or selling screen plays.</p>
<p>I know this isn't exactly recruiment but about 3/4 of the people you see on "Date My Mom" and all those other MTV shows are recruited from San Diego State. I know a girl at SDSU who was on Fear Factor and now has an internship with MTV in New York, but of course shes hot hot hot.</p>
<p>you want to be in a program with connections to the entertainment industry. USC is the alpha male gorilla in this bunch but if not your bag take a look at cal state fullerton, cal poly pomona, san diego state, UCLA, long beach state, pepperdine and NYU.</p>
<p>"you want to be in a program with connections to the entertainment industry. USC is the alpha male gorilla in this bunch but if not your bag take a look at cal state fullerton, cal poly pomona, san diego state, UCLA, long beach state, pepperdine and NYU."</p>
<p>USC is the "alpha male gorilla" in this bunch? You gotta be kidding me. USC, UCLA, and NYU are all basically in the same category. No need to be inflating USC's influence.</p>
<p>you better check out the academic programs of these three schools before you allege that they are in the "same category." while all three have some prominence in cinema--though the trojans lead in that alone as exemplified by their alumni list--there is no comparison across the breadth of the field known as entertainment, particularly within business. the anderson school is distinguished but is graduate only. so what do you do as an undergrad--major in english? the annenberg and marshall schools both are world renowned and are totally integrated in terms of curriculum/programmatic development with the school of cinema and television from undergraduate studies all the way to postdoctoral work. if anything, the stern school and its allies have surpassed anderson, though much of its efforts are through its lesser regarded extended education branches.</p>
<p>Why don't you post USC's supposedly immense alumni list in entertainment and then compare/explain exactly how it trumps that of NYU or UCLA. And I don't see how simple curriculum integration between Annenberg, Marshall, and the School of Cinema has anything to do with your claim that they are supposedly "world renowned".
Ask around on the MBA threads (or even F500 execs/recruiters) about how USC's Marshall school fares in the business world in comparison to the true elites such as HBS, Stanford, Wharton, Kellogg, Columbia, Chicago, etc. I'll grant that the Marshall name is recognized by some... but hardly deserving of the lofty compliments you're heaping on it.</p>