Great schools for sports media - besides Syracuse?
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I know they have a sports media track and center. Will visit Ithaca in the same trip.
Also considering Emerson. What else? |
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| Chapel Hill |
Anonymous
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Rice has a sports management track?
Northwestern has some sort of sports communication? Also, Wisconsin? UT-Austin? |
Anonymous
| UMD has an excellent journalism school with a center on sports journalism. |
Anonymous
| My kid is looking at Syracuse UMD and Temple. He also considered Miami, Arizona State, and a few others. |
Anonymous
| Mizzou |
Anonymous
| Research where many of current sports broadcasters, the ones on the younger side, went to school. |
Anonymous
| Elon has a great program. Katie Ledecky spoke at family weekend and was interviewed by an alum that won an Emmy for sports journalism. Her name is escaping me, unfortunately. They do lots of internships and hands on learning in their programs. |
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| UMD |
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Which major? |
Anonymous
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I'll throw out a name you may never have heard but has a great program in sports media.
Quinnipiac in CT. I was also going to say Ithaca but you got that one already. |
Anonymous
| Georgia, Penn State, Temple, and Indiana all have sports media institutes. Georgia and Penn State offer sports media/journalism certificates. Temple and Indiana have sports media majors. All are accredited programs so keep journalism skill classes below 20 students. I think that's important if you're going to a large public state school. Other than Georgia, all the others have reasonable admission standards. Whatever school you choose you'd want to make sure that participating in on campus media opportunities--TV station, newspaper, student media agencies-- can happen as early as freshman year. I'd suggest you also research whether these schools regularly participate in media festivals/contests to help build student resumes. Post undergrad employment is all a function of internships, developing a media tape, and tangible experience in the field. |
Anonymous
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Getting front line experience at the school newspaper or creating your own podcast with a following is as important as the caliber of a journalism school.
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Anonymous
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They have journalism school. Not sure if sports is strong:
https://www.ohio.edu/scripps-college/journalism |
Anonymous
| Duke's public policy school has a media track. Do that and work at the student newspaper, covering high profile sports. Duke has a very under-rated network of people in media, including sports - lots of big names and they are very collaborative. And you have a Duke degree to fall back on. |