Top Schools For Communication Majors

proudterrier
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:15:34 +0000

As others have mentioned, Communications means different things at different universities… the good news is you can study communications pretty much anywhere, but you may want to fine-tune your search beyond a Communications degree and look at majoring specifically in PR, or possibly even studying journalism.

I am less familiar with the top schools/programs for PR/ad-comm, but I do know the best places to look for journalism–I would advise starting at these schools and seeing what their PR/ad-comm programs are like, too: Northwestern, Syracuse, Mizzou, Boston University. I checked another thread and it looks like you may have some Cs, so these schools might be outside your grasp (depending on test scores/essays), but regardless take a look. I know BU has a PR/ad-com major in College of Communications–you could look at that program and perhaps use it to compare against other schools w/ similar programs? The key will be finding programs with a LOT of practical writing classes, taught by professionals, as opposed to theory classes, or a communications program that focuses too much on, say, film/TV.

I would look at the UCs and see if they have anything close–I’m sure several do. I know a communications professional who attended UCI, and several who attended UC Davis. If money is no object, maybe try some out of state flagships. I know UMD & UGA have good journalism programs.