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Could someone please tell me what the top 15 schools or so are for Journalism and for Advertising (Separate list). Thanks.

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 11:28 am: Edit

If you want to major specifically in advertising, Syracuse U and Boston U are probably the top two.
Ithaca College has an integrated marketing communications major that would also be good preparation for a career in advertising.

For journalism, the top schools probably are: Northwestern, Syracuse, Boston U, USC, Ithaca, U of Maryland-College Park, University of Missouri-Columbia, UNC Chapel Hill.

Other schools with very good communications and/or journalism programs (and possibly advertising majors as well) include: American, University of Arizona, UC Berkeley/UCLA, Emerson, Loyola Marymount, U of Nebraska Lincoln (also has a good advertising program), University of Oregon, University of Denver, Fairfield U, Fordham U, Gettysburgh College, Loyola College (MD), Villanova, Macalester, Trinity U (Texas), Stanford, Quinnipiac,Pepperdine, Susquehanna U, Santa Clara U, San Diego State U, U of Pittsburgh, Muhlenburgh. I'm sure there are others that are good as well.

By Gigglz (Gigglz) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 07:18 pm: Edit

A comment I found online while searching for top journalism schools...

"University of Missouri-Columbia.
Period.
First school of Journalism, best school of journalism. They are the only school in the nation that actually OWNS a city newspaper, and allows students hands-on experience in working there. The clips you get on that paper, the Missourian, are not null and void after ten years as a professional, as most other clips from typical "college papers" would be. These are stories printed in a real-life metro daily. Pretty cool, if yhou ask me. The school is competitive, well-respected, and has a reputation among professionals as the best.

I attended the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference last year, and the only college represented there was Mizzou. That speaks loudly about exactly what kind of school it is.

The "Mizzou mafia" includes editors at the Washington Post, New York Time, Seattle Times and Dallas Morning News. These are proud graduates of Mizzou--graduates that hire Mizzou grads first, as long as their personal stats reflect the University's standards. As far as real-life practicality goes, Mizzou is the best bet.

Northwestern kids, to me, have always been stuck up, and without good reason.
Ball State is good, too.
Chapel Hill is underrated, I think. It's a lot better that it's reputation would let on.

But still, in my book, Mizzou all the way. Look into it for veen five minutes and you'll be sold."

By Uncchlocalmayor (Uncchlocalmayor) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 07:32 pm: Edit

UNC-CH has a great school of Journalism/Communications.

By W_Wemer (W_Wemer) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 11:31 pm: Edit

I looked pretty heavily at journalism schools cause that's my major too. Here is a good short list

Stanford
UC Berkeley
Southern Cal
Northwestern
Missouri
Northwestern
Ohio University
Indiana U.
Wisconsin-Madison
Emerson College (Boston)
Univ. of North Carolina
Syracuse
Ithaca
Washington and Lee
NYU
American
Arizona State
Colorado-Boulder
Boston U.

That should be a start. You might also want to look at smaller schools with strong writing programs. Look at places in big cities so you can partner a technical or professional writing program with an internship or two. I looked at the writing programs at Carnegie Mellon, Sarah Lawrence and Case Western Resevre University as alternatives to the typical journalism.

If I can quickly toot the horn of my home state, Ohio University has a really good program that is usually overlooked. The Scripps School of Journalism is amazing, and OU is the only school in the country with a Associated Press server on campus. The students run the university paper, and are employed to write for the local paper. OU in general is also looking for more out of state students.

It all depends on what you want. Big or small, rural or urban, conservative or liberal, more selective, close to home. There's probaly some school out there for you.

By Nu_Fan (Nu_Fan) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 04:38 pm: Edit

I must say being a senior from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, they have a great journalism program as well. I am biased though :-) Missouri is great, I transferred from there after my freshmen year to Nebraska.

By I1lmatics (I1lmatics) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 11:08 pm: Edit

Caryoln is is fair to say that admission into boston u's communication school as an advertising major is more difficult than admission into it's business school as a marketing major?

By I1lmatics (I1lmatics) on Friday, December 05, 2003 - 03:00 pm: Edit

anyone?

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Friday, December 05, 2003 - 05:54 pm: Edit

That's a question you'd have to ask BU - but I suspect that there isn't much difference because BU's business school is very popular as well.

By Midmoia (Midmoia) on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 05:04 pm: Edit

I think a marketing program is VASTLY different from an advertising program. It differes from program to program, of course.

In my experience, Advertising people are involved in the promotional and creative side while Marketing people are on the sales and distribution side.