<p>Does anyone have any firsthand experience with the journalism program at USC. I am worried that USC is not an academically serious institution, but I love the fact that it has its own journalism school.</p>
<p>I do not have first-hand experience with USC’s Journalism program. However, I will respond as follows to your concern that USC is not an academically serious institution:</p>
<p>1) The Honors College at The University of South Carolina (“SCHC”) is a “structurally independent, degree-granting college combining the characteristics of a prestigious small liberal-arts school with access to all the diverse resources of a major research university.” </p>
<p>2) “The Honors College provides each of its students one-on-one advising, an extensive four-year curriculum covering all majors with small classes (the average class size is 14 students) and special housing opportunities.”</p>
<p>3) “Over 120 courses are offered exclusively to Honors College students. Students are required to complete a Senior Thesis under the direction of a faculty advisor in order to graduate from the College with Honors. Since 1994, Honors College students have won more than 278 national awards and fellowships.”</p>
<p>4) The SCHC has over 1200 students. The entering freshman class had an average SAT of 1404, average weighted GPA of 4.5 and average high school class rank in the top 3%. </p>
<p>5) “In August 2009, the SCHC opened a state-of-the-art 50,000 square foot student residence/ teaching/learning facility in the heart of the USC campus.”</p>
<p>6) Members of the university’s scholarship programs, Carolina Scholars for in-state students and McNair Scholars for out-of-state students, had average scores of 1449 and 1477, respectively. Carolina Scholars and McNair Scholars are automatically admitted to SCHC.</p>
<p>7) For more information on SCHC, go to [Honors</a> College - University of South Carolina](<a href=“South Carolina Honors College - South Carolina Honors College | University of South Carolina”>http://schc.sc.edu/).</p>
<p>8) In addition to SCHC students, last year’s 484 freshmen Capstone Scholars had an average SAT of 1313.</p>
<p>Good post, Meadowbrook Court. I’ve been annoyed by this question. I wondered if it was just a ■■■■■ trying to agitate.</p>
<p>OP: if you want someone to answer to your questions, slamming their school probably isn’t the best tactic.</p>
<p>LynchburgLover: Thank you! Ginan125: A quick Google search indicates that your daughter is an undergraduate at Clemson. Is your post yet another salvo in the Clemson/USC putdown competition that has been going on for generations? Unless I am informed otherwise, I choose to give you the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>Interesting search, Meadbrook Court!</p>
<p>Rivalry is okay but insulting another school on a message board seems a little immature.</p>
<p>Maybe we should change the topic to football or baseball? Read the other day that Clemson even lost the Annual Blood Drive competition. </p>
<p>Oh, well. I’m sure the Journalism School is fine – Ainsley Earhart on Fox went there!</p>
<p>I have an undergraduate broadcast degree from USC. Actually USC has a great journalism school - definitely the strongest in the state (IMHO). It is an accredited program whose dean is Charles Bierbauer.</p>
<p>“From 1981-2001, Bierbauer was a correspondent for CNN in Washington. For nine years, he covered the Reagan and Bush administrations as CNNs senior White House correspondent. He joined CNN as its Pentagon correspondent, covered five presidential campaigns from 1984-2000, and spent five terms as the networks Supreme Court correspondent.”</p>
<p>The school offers undergraduate, masters and doctorate programs.</p>