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    News junkies, read all about it! Are you always looking for the truth? Are you always sniffing out every angle of a situation and able to hear all sides? You’d do well as a journalist. The field includes writers, editors, photojournalists, newscasters, and online content producers. The diversity of media outlets include newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet, though many graduates venture to public relations, copywriting, technical writing and freelance writings careers. Regardless of the type of media, you’ll be expected to hone interviewing, writing, research, reporting and editing skills.

    Typical courses include broadcast news writing, magazine writing, mass communications, and media law. From founding father Benjamin Franklin who founded The Pennsylvania Gazette to influential journalists such as Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, and Cokie Roberts, you’ll be in good company. Best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

    • Northwestern University

      Northwestern University Save

      633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208
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      Just north of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan—in fact built in part on land reclaimed from the water—Northwestern is to the Big 10 what Vanderbilt is to the SEC: the private university for the best students in the ... learn more

      Heavy Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science, Research University, Focus on Undergraduate Professions
    • Washington and Lee University

      Washington and Lee University Save

      204 West Washington Street, Lexington, VA 24450
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      In Confederate icon Stonewall Jackson's hometown, Washington College changed forever when General Robert E. Lee needed a job after the Civil War and became president in 1865. Initiating the Honor Code when a student tried to lie to him about ... learn more

      Heavy Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science, Focus on Undergraduate Professions, Liberal Arts College, Offers Baccalaureate Degrees
    • University of Southern California

      University of Southern California Save

      University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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      The oldest private research university in California, USC enrolls about 19,000 undergrads and 24,000 grad students in 22 different schools, colleges, and units, ranging from the traditional — accounting, public policy, business — to the brand-new — arts, technology, and ... learn more

      Focus on Undergraduate Professions, Research University, Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science
    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Save

      153 A Country Club Road, Campus Box 2200, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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      With a beautiful campus in a lovely college town, UNC Chapel Hill may be forgiven—by all but Duke and Virginia fans—for the rhetorical question, "If God isn't a Tarheel fan, why did He make the sky Carolina blue?" The alma ... learn more

      Heavy Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science, Research University, Focus on Undergraduate Professions
    • New York University

      New York University Save

      70 Washington Sq South, New York, NY 10012
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      With Washington Square Park at the foot of Fifth Avenue for its Quad, NYU is of the city, rather than simply in it. As the various schools of business, education, performing arts and other disciplines were apparently not enough, NYU ... learn more

      Heavy Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science, Research University, Focus on Undergraduate Professions
    • Northeastern University

      Northeastern University Save

      360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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      Not long ago a commuter school with convenient "T" service running down the middle of Huntington Avenue, Northeastern has made the most of Boston's long-running general allure for many students, and Cooperative Education's specific appeal to this career-oriented generation and ... learn more

      Focus on Undergraduate Professions, Research University, Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science
    • Lehigh University

      Lehigh University Save

      27 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA 18015
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      Set on a slope so steep that a graduate invented the escalator after one too many hikes from his classes and dining hall back up to his dorm room, Lehigh University offers strong programs not only in engineering, but also ... learn more

      Research University, Heavy Focus on Undergraduate Professions, Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science
    • University of Miami

      University of Miami Save

      University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146
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      Located in suburban Coral Gables rather than where parents fear—on South Beach—the University of Miami is a rising star among private universities, in large part due to the unflagging efforts of Donna Shalala. Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin before ... learn more

      Focus on Undergraduate Professions, Research University, Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science
    • University of Richmond

      University of Richmond Save

      28 Westhampton Way, University of Richmond, VA 23173
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      On attractive, traditional, red brick campus straddling a lake in a suburban residential area on the west side of Virginia's capital city, the University of Richmond offers five different academic programs, highlighted by the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, which ... learn more

      Heavy Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science, Focus on Undergraduate Professions, Liberal Arts College, Offers Baccalaureate Degrees
    • California State University-Long Beach

      California State University-Long Beach Save

      1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90840
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      Thanks to the exceptional President's Scholars Program (which awards scholarships of $25,000 and up), there are more state high school valedictorians at beachfront Long Beach State than any other California school. There are also great women's volleyball and softball teams, ... learn more

      Focus on Undergraduate Professions, Master's University, Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science
    • George Washington University

      George Washington University Save

      2121 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052
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      GW is to DC what NYU is to NYC and BU is to Boston: a busy urban experience that doesn't just speak, but fairly shouts to the career-oriented pre-professional. Located in the Foggy Bottom section of Washington, close by the ... learn more

      Heavy Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science, Research University, Focus on Undergraduate Professions
    • The University of Texas at Austin

      The University of Texas at Austin Save

      2400 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78712
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      A Democratic stronghold in the reddest of Red States, UT-Austin combines proud traditions of academic and athletic—especially football—excellence. The Plan II Honors Program is one of the nation's oldest public university offerings for scholars, and "Hook ‘Em, Horns"—for the Texas ... learn more

      Focus on Undergraduate Professions, Research University, Focus on Undergraduate Arts and Science

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