Good schools for Journalism

Alix2012
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:24:02 +0000

It’s not worthless, but some schools require students to double-major if they study Journalism. Common double majors are Politics, Economics, International Affairs, Sociology, etc. The logic behind that is it’s good for journalists to have backgrounds in a field they’re interested in reporting about. You don’t need a journalism degree to figure out how to do research or write an article - pretty much any liberal arts or science major can do that, and work or intern at a newspaper or in publishing to get experience.

Some great journalism programs:
University of Missouri-Columbia
Northwestern
UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism
U Maryland - College of Journalism
Syracuse - School of Public Communications
U Georgia - College of Journalism and Mass Communication

SUNY-Plattsburgh, SUNY StonyBrook and SUNY-Oswego have Journalism programs. SUNY-New Paltz has a Communication & Media Study program which is similar.