Confused/ need your oppinions/thoughts

CountryMusicFan
Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:55:55 +0000

Hey Y’all! I posted this in other topics here, but I didn’t get a responce.
I currently go to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am a broadcast journalism major, wanting to get into radio. Everyone here tells me that this is not the right school for this, and they don’t prepare you for the working world, etc, etc, the technology is out-of-date etc… and a friend of mine (he graduated college) told me a few years ago when I first expressed interested in U of I that it isn’t the right school for broadcast journalism, but I didn’t believe him- and brushed his comment off. Not only that, but I can’t even find an internship- and I’m stuck with like 9 thousand general ed classes (and I’m a junior!) I just transfered into the media college in October. So with all this in mind, I am looking at getting my AA in radio/TV from my community college, and then transfering to another school after that to get my BA in broadcasting or broadcast communications. (I’m not looking to be a journalist at all!) I’m not even looking to be on TV! (but I mean if I’m on TV before radio, then that’s where I end up) at this point, I just wanna get my foot in the door, and I’m not sure U of I is the place to do it. (especially with their technology being super out of date) So any suggestons on good communication/broadcast communication schools? I would say I’d apply to Syracuse, but I don’t want to be a journalist, I just need a really good program, preferably not journalism, since I don’t intend to be a reporter. And the other thing that concerns me is they don’t even place you for an internship- your pretty much on your own. In fact, I don’t even have to get an internship to graduate if I don’t want to. So any thoughts/suggestions on this are appreciated!
Please read/reply!
Thanks so much,
a future broadcaster.