Top Journalism Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>Add to the list of Medill grads in sports journalism: some of my classmates were Mark Purdy, sports editor of the San Jose Mercury News, and Helene Elliott, who writes about hockey. By the way, Rick Telander played football at NU. I don't think he went to Medill.</p>

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<p>I think University of Missouri at Columbia is still the top journalism school in the country, and has been since at least the 1940s. I think the general idea is Mizzou, Northwestern, Syracuse, etc.</p>

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<p>I thought the best j-schools, widely acknowledged as such are:</p>

<p>Berkeley
Columbia
Missouri-Columbia
Northwestern
(alphabetical order)</p>

<p>The most successful journalists I know (and I know some tiptop ones) didn't go to j-school or at most took a couple of classes. Just a thought. Poli sci, econ., business, technology, other courses about world issues, etc. appear to be much more important background for this career, judging by my friends.</p>