<p>Ithaca College seems like a very good choice. The Park School of Communications is very well known and offers degrees in Cinema & Photography, Journalism, Television-Radio, Intergrated Marketing Communications, Documentary Studies and Production, Communication Management and Design, and Film, Photography, and Visual Arts. You can also minor in almost all of these.</p>
<p>The Park School is very well thought out in terms of teaching students how to communicate in this time. From reading your first paragraph you might one to look at the TV-R or Journalism programs. I was convinced to come to IC when I took a tour in the summer before senior year. I saw the television studios and realized how much I wanted to be in the control room.</p>
<p>Check out their website at ithaca.edu/rhp and sort of explore the majors. I think TVR or Journalism might pop out to your daughter. Also check out ictv.org where you can see Newswatch 16 - the local news brought to you by IC.</p>
<p>Problem your daughter might have with IC is that its cold.</p>
<p>Stanford’s comm program is ranked solidly #1 by the [NRC</a> ranking](<a href=“NRC Rankings Overview: Communication”>NRC Rankings Overview: Communication). It’s in an area with a warm/mild climate, and while it isn’t “small,” you get the tight-knit communities in your dorm, your classes, and your activities.</p>
<p>phantasmagoric, isn’t that a ranking of doctoral programs? Can you assume the quality of the undergrad program will track the doctoral program?</p>
<p>^ this has been discussed ad nauseum, but I’ll summarize: yes, there’s a high correlation between strength of undergrad program and strength of grad program. That’s because the basis for evaluating one is usually the basis for evaluating the other: they share faculty, courses, facilities, libraries, research, grants, events, etc. So a high rating for the grad portion usually means that undergrads in the program enjoy the same benefits that led to its high rating.</p>
<p>This is more true for some schools than others, since some will separate the two more. But at Stanford, there is no separation; undergrads are often treated as grad students, as they routinely get involved in research with professors, do internships, take grad-level courses (which are open to undergrads), use the facilities to do class work or research, etc.</p>
<p>At any rate phantasmagoric, if you actually read the OP’s initial post, you would know that Stanford would be a big reach for her daughter and its students are probably a little too “serious” for her considering that the OP made it explicitly clear that her daughter wanted a more laid-back college experience.</p>
<p>^ there is no harm in suggesting Stanford, especially since I’m in no place to judge her daughter or her chances. It’s perfectly fine to have reach schools, anyway.</p>
<p>The most common perception about Stanford is that it’s very laid-back (the whole West Coast/California attitude), so an emphasis on that only makes the suggestion more appropriate.</p>
<p>She also mentioned “lots of trees and green spaces” (Stanford has 43,000 trees on campus), not urban (Stanford is suburban), a strong study abroad program (half of Stanford’s students study abroad, in the top-notch Bing Overseas Studies Program), bright serious students but not too serious (the epitome of Stanford’s student body), and mild winters (you can go out in a T-shirt and shorts in December at Stanford).</p>
<p>All that combined with the fact that it happens to have *the *top-ranked comm program, and you can see why it’s worth mentioning.</p>
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Just to be clear it is one of the top ranked PhD programs. For someone who wants to attend a LAC this listing is useless. For someone who is open to all types of college this list cuts off more than half of the available universe.</p>
<p>Anyone who thinks Stanford is laid back hasn’t spent much time at Stanford</p>
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<p>It’s true - I wouldn’t distinguish among the top several comm programs (or the top of most programs). But when I said “the” top-ranked program, I was indicating the NRC ranking which put it at the top. Just a reason to mention it.</p>
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<p>I’m about to graduate from Stanford and can tell you, it defines “laid-back.” I’m from California and still find Stanford really laid-back. I don’t know where you get your information…</p>