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<p>What are the best undergraduate schools in journalism?</p>

<p>Also, is it sufficient to major in something else and just work really hard on a college TV station or newspaper? Would that alternative path rack in the same amout of prestigioius job offers?</p>

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<p>NYU Journalism (CAS)
Syracuse University</p>

<p>Dunno about the Qs, sorry</p>

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<p>**Scripps School of Journalism - Ohio University ** is one of the most prestigious Journalism schools in the country. Admission is highly selective and job placement is one of the top in the country. </p>

<p>Undergraduates select from six sequence options, including Advertising Management, Broadcast News, Magazine Journalism, News Writing & Editing, Online Journalism, and Public Relations. </p>

<p>"One of the flagship programs of Ohio University, the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism is in the College of Communication. The school was named one of the nation’s top five programs in a survey conducted by Youngs, Walter & Co., a Chicago-based management consulting firm. The school’s graduate program, in 1996, was named among the top ten in U.S. News and World Report’s journalism education ranking.</p>

<p>The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism is one of the most competitive programs for undergraduate admission receiving upwards of 1100 applications for a limited 250 spots in the entering class. Students typically rank in the top 15% of their class with SAT scores above 1800 and ACT scores of 27+."</p>

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_University[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_University&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“E.W. Scripps School of Journalism | Ohio University”>E.W. Scripps School of Journalism | Ohio University;

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<p>Northwestern has a good journalism school (Medill).</p>

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<p>The best is University of Missori - Columbia. Other good ones - Northwestern, Syracuse, NYU, UT-Austin, GWU, and University of Georgia.</p>

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<p>Undergrad: Northwestern, USC, U North Carolina-Chapel Hill, U Missouri-Columbia, Syracuse, Boston U, New York University</p>

<p>Grad: Columbia, UC Berkeley</p>

<p>“Also, is it sufficient to major in something else and just work really hard on a college TV station or newspaper? Would that alternative path rack in the same amout of prestigioius job offers?” Yes. Most people do this!</p>

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<p>The Best is The Medill School at Northwestern University.</p>

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<p>Syracuse has a great journalism school, one of the best around. Lots of great job opportunities to SU journalism grads that few other schools can offer.</p>

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<p>Missouri - Columbia is the best, but if you want good academics all-around, then it’s Northwestern. Syracuse is great, especially for broadcast, print is good too. I would also like to restate Ohio, USC, GWU, NYU. There is no question that Columbia University is the best for grad school.</p>

<p>As for your other questions, I’m just going to tell you what other journalists have told me. It is very easy to pursue journalism without having to major in it. Some of our best journalists are those who study something else in college. People hiring see it as only beneficial if you study something else that you are interested in, like business or politics. This is especially true if you want to pursue print journalsim, no one is going to care what you studied in college if you know how to write.</p>

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<p>Ohio University and Univ. of Missouri (Rolla) – those names came up repeatedly when my d was looking.</p>

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<p>It’s common knowledge that for undergraduate Journalism, the best four schools in the USA are Northwestern (Medill), Ohio U (Scripps), Syracuse (Newhouse) and Missouri-Columbia.</p>

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<p>Id say Mizzou and Northwestern are both tops as far as j-schools go.</p>

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<p>You know, journalism isn’t like business. You don’t get “prestigious job offers” right out of college, and you’ll have to do lots of internships after school to get into most top-20 newspapers. You won’t walk out of college and into the New York Times.</p>

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<p>I know. What I meant by “prestigious job offers” was the difference between a job at, maybe, a Chattanooga-size TV station, versus some rural farmland update in Wyoming.</p>

<p>But, YouGotJohn, do you think I would get better internships if I majored in journalism then if I just worked really hard at a school TV station or newspaper?</p>

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<p>Not exactly true, at least not with Syracuse. I don’t know about the other schools, but there have been several SU Newhouse grads in recent years who got picked up at major magazines/newspapers right after college. Same thing with sports broadcast journalism. One example is the person who interviewed Terrell Owens earlier this fall when he made the remarks that got him cut from the Philadelphia Eagles. The interviewer was a freshman at Syracuse and had already interviewed Muhammed Ali and Adam Sandler.</p>