Suggest me some schools!

PurpleTitan
Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:00:09 +0000

“Along with Columbia U and University of Missouri, they are considered the top journalism programs in the country, along with a couple way out west (USC and ASU).”

cough Northwestern cough

For the OP: Considering that even the grads of elite J-schools like Mizzou currently have trouble landing anything but low-paying jobs where they can barely support themselves (if they find anything at all), my advice to you, if you are intent on journalism/communications/writing, with your stats, is to just find the lowest-cost school. I’m not too familiar with the region, but something like the Maryville University (which is in StL) of the Northeast (Maryville has an automatic $14K scholarship for an SAT of 1250–I assume M/V–bringing cost down to about $11K). If you keep costs to $10K/year, you can tell your parents that you saved $40K which you’d like to bank for a master’s at a more renown 1-year program later on.

I had in mind SUNY-New Paltz (which brands itself as SUNY’s liberal arts college), though their cost (without aid) seems to be $17K.