<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I would like to know which are the best universities in the field of journalism.
Thank you!</p>
<p>Syracuse University Newhouse School</p>
<p>Northwestern (medill), Mizzou(argubly the best), Syracuse, for some odd reason I'm drawing a blank grrr...can't think of anymore. :p</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill, University of Southern California, NORTHWESTERN</p>
<p>W&L has a nice business journalism program</p>
<p>GW has a pretty good program from what I hear.</p>
<p>Emerson, Syracuse, and Northwestern, forget all other schools.</p>
<p>I disagree. Mizzou is awesome :p</p>
<p>Start with the 107 journalism programs accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Here's the list: <a href="http://www.ku.edu/%7Eacejmc/STUDENT/PROGLIST.SHTML%5B/url%5D">http://www.ku.edu/~acejmc/STUDENT/PROGLIST.SHTML</a></p>
<p>Any program on that list will have met specific standards for journalism education and provide you with the skills you need to become a practicing journalist. There are a few very good programs that are not accredited, but the ACEJMC list is a very good place to start. </p>
<p>Most important things to look for in ANY journalism program:
1. Have a substantial majority of the faculty been practicing journalists?
2. Are classes focused mainly on skills (i.e., writing, editing, etc.) or mainly on theory? The first type of program is geared towards developing working journalists, the latter type is usually geared towards moving people into graduate school. Someone who wants to break into journalism should concentrate on programs that develop real world skills, not theoretical knowledge.
3. What facilities are available? How available are they to undergraduates? Ideally, you want access to the types of equipment used in real newsrooms.
4. What opportunities are there to build a writing portfolio? How competitive is it to work on the student newspaper or radio/TV station? What types of internships are available and who usually fills them?
5. Where do recent alumni find jobs after graduation? What types of career advisement and placement programs are available within the school of journalism? Are a sizable majority of alumni working in media-related careers?</p>
<p>GW, Syracuse, Columbia, Northwestern.</p>
<p>btw columbia is only grad school :p</p>
<p>Many of the schools on that list are gard only, and some of the best undergrad programs aren't, confusing.</p>
<p>The only one on the list that only offers a graduate degree that I see is Columbia. All of the others have undergraduate programs. As I said, there are a few very good programs that are not accredited, but the accredited programs are the place to start.</p>
<p>By the way, if I had to pick the five journalism programs I personally consider to be the strongest at preparing people for print journalism jobs (I'm a working journalist) are, in no particular order: U of Missouri-Columbia, Northwestern, Syracuse, the University of Southern California, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. </p>
<p>Other very good programs: Washington & Lee, Flagler College (FL), Boston U,
U of Florida, Ithaca, U of South Dakota, U of Nebraska-Lincoln, U of Maryland-College Park, Ohio State, U of Oregon, Emerson. But there are many other excellent programs out there as well. Keep in mind that in journalism it is not so much the NAME of the school you go to, as the SKILLS and experience you have that matters when it comes to landing that first job.</p>
<p>If you insist on majoring in journalism, double major in a real subject like economics or business, religion or chemistry, history or politics. Too many journalists wind up knowing how to write and organize a story on issues they know nothing about. More often than not, they get it wrong.</p>
<p>Take a look at the following from the Chronicle of Higher Education from June 2005:</p>
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FACULTY NOTES
Plan Would Change Journalism Education</p>
<p>By KATHERINE S. MANGAN</p>
<p>At a time when journalism has been rocked by scandals and is reeling from the competitive pressures of round-the-clock news coverage, five major research universities and two national foundations last week unveiled a plan to revitalize journalism education.</p>
<p>By integrating journalism schools more fully into their universities, the participants hope to give students more specialized expertise in the complex subjects they will cover, and a stronger grounding in ethics.</p>
<p>Students would also gain more hands-on experience through internships with news organizations and on-campus "incubators" under the program, which is to be led by the journalism schools at Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. Also participating is the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.</p>
<p>The Carnegie Corporation of New York has pledged $2.4-million for the first two years of the project, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has committed $1.7-million. The presidents of the five universities have agreed to support the program in the third year.</p>
<p>"Journalism is too important to this nation and our democracy to have the schools that educate its future leaders be anything but central to the universities in which they reside," Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation, said in a written statement.
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<p>Below is the USC news release on the grants. </p>
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Posted May 26, 2005</p>
<p>USC Annenberg, other top universities launch journalism education initiative</p>
<p>Through a partnership with the Carnegie Corporation and the Knight Foundation, USC Annenberg and four other journalism schools and programs launched on May 26 a new initiative to enhance journalism education and the profession. The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education involves curriculum enrichment, "News 21" incubators for investigative reporting projects, and a research and policy task force. USC Annenberg dean Geoffrey Cowan (pictured) was a member of the task force that crafted the initiative. Other schools or programs participating in the initiative include Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. "After three years of intense and exciting conversations," said Cowan at the New York press conference announcing the initiative, "we are proud to be part of an effort that may well make an important and even historic contribution to our students, our universities, our profession and to the society.
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<p>I believe that most journalism students are very poorly educated. Others apparently believe the same thing.</p>
<p>Been lurking for some time, and have learned quite a lot, particularly since my oldest daughter wants to be a journalist. Your "Top 5" was confirmed by a j school adcom we spoke to in the course of beginning our college search (d is going into junior year). Other schools mentioned by him as slightly below the top group included Texas-Austin, Miami-Florida, Penn State, Maryland-College Park (particularly for political reporting), Illinois-Champaign (for advertising), Ohio U., NYU and BU (the latter two in a separate category for unaccredited j schools). </p>
<p>Thanks for all the info.</p>
<p>Thanx a lot, folks!</p>
<p>I'll weigh up the opportunities offered by the universities/colleges you listed.</p>
<p>Kisses</p>
<p>boston u? def columbia</p>
<p>OP, are you looking for undergrad? :confused:</p>
<p>^^^Yeah. Thanx again, everyone.</p>
<p>Ohio University has a great program and is the strongest at the school and clearly best in the state. It's definitely worth a look.</p>