<p>I am having a really hard time choosing my college. Anyone who knows these programs please help me about...I want to do Journalism, probably magazine, but also interested in radio. I am still considering the following schools:
Park School of Communications at Ithaca College
Emerson College
School of Communications at Boston University
SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University
Missouri School of Journalism</p>
<p>NYU (if you want to intern there is no better place)
USC (L.A. is second only to NYC)
Northwestern
Columbia (amazing grad school)
UNC-chapel hill</p>
<p>i’m interested in journalism too! here are my personal opinions… i haven’t heard anything about the journalism programs at ithaca or emerson. when i talked to a journalism student at boston university, she didn’t speak highly of the program. she said her professors weren’t that helpful and the journalism school was considered an easy/blowoff major. just one student’s opinion, but i didn’t end up applying for a variety of reasons. i’ve heard great things about syracuse and mizzou. a ton of my friends are going to mizzou for journalism. northwestern is really the best, but medill has a lot of controversy right now.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in pursuing journalism, what I was told by journalists is to pursue an undergraduate degree in something other than journalism (maybe something you’d be interested in covering, like international affairs) and then to get a graduate degree in journalism.</p>
<p>Syracuse, but think long and hard about this because newspapers are closing daily all over the country.</p>
<p>college != all about money</p>
<p>that’s why schools like USC are perfect for journalism major’s because you can easily double major and you take almost the same number of classes as someone who is pursuing only one degree. I’m really leaning toward USC as my school of choice for this reason. In today’s economy it’s very important to have a plan B.</p>
<p>It really depends on what else you’re taking into account when looking at schools.</p>
<p>For me, I wanted:
(1) to be in a major city so that I could have the most possible internship opportunities, and maybe the most to report just by being in an urban center (for instance, try comparing NYC and Columbia, MO…).
(2) to supplement my journalism education with a solid liberal arts education. It’s important as a journalist to know not just how to report, but also some background on what you are reporting.
(3) a student body that actually appreciates journalism and reads the student publications/listens to the radio station/etc. For instance, I definitely found this at Northwestern–the campus seemed proud of having Medill on campus.
(4) a strong student newspaper. The Yale Daily News probably trumps all but all of the schools you listed have impressive papers; I’ve seen most of them. Some schools do actually have pretty weak papers, so it’s worth picking up a copy when you visit.</p>
<p>Also, you want to make sure that you like the social atmosphere, location, etc. Try evaluating each of the schools as if you were an undecided major in addition to checking out their journalism programs. (I don’t really know specifics about the strength of each of the schools you listed in each of the areas you listed, but I have heard that Medill has been changing drastically to try to account for new medias such as podcasting etc.; it sounds pretty exciting. You can’t go wrong there.) Also, if you have any ideas about where you’d be looking to get your first job, that might sway your decision. (Example: if you go to BU and hold some internships while you’re a student, you’d make connections with Boston publications, maybe graduate with a job… idk.)</p>
<p>Good luck! Also keep in mind that you can go to a school without a substantial journalism program and just hone your writing skills and study an area that you may be interested in reporting, join the school’s newspaper staff, and leave graduate school for journalism as an option. (This is what I’m doing–I fell in love with a school that hasn’t even been mentioned yet in this topic… and who knows? I may find another interest, and want to just freelance as a journalist!)</p>
<p>Newhouse or Mizzou if you want to be able to get a job.</p>
<p>thanks for all your answers…that’s really something to think about with bu. anyway i’m pretty sure I’m going to double major or at least minor wherever I go because I am very aware of the need for an education outside journalism, but I know I want to study journalism as well because right now it’s what I really enjoy doing and I don’t want to wait four more years to do it.
I really confused out what I want size, location-wise and I also think I could do many different settings, that’s why all my schools are so different.
Does anyone know anything about the education at Mizzou outside of journalism…that’s what’s really worrying me about mizzou</p>
<p>You might want to check out University of Maryland. Their journalism program is very good and has a lot of Washington DC connections.</p>
<p>“Newhouse or Mizzou if you want to be able to get a job.”</p>
<p>Sure you should consider these two schools if you want quality education in Journalism but that definitely does not mean you will be guaranteed a job when you leave college. sadly this is the way alot of students think; be it at Syracuse, Missouri, or Northwestern. You still have to put in the work and come out with a spectacular GPA.</p>
<p>But the best Journalism schools are</p>
<p>Northwester University
Syracuse University
Missouri-Columbia
Columbia (but only for grad school)
UNC Chapel Hill</p>
<p>GW has an excellent political communications program, if that’s your thing.</p>
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<p>Correct, but I was referring to the schools in the original post.</p>
<p>I heard really good things about Mizzou</p>