Good Media Colleges

University of Pennsylvania

• The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication is ranked No. 1 in the College Crunch study. The university has education about the media covered from a number of different angles. Internships and study-abroad options help to diversify the education students receive about communications and media organizations and their impact on our culture. Research is a primary focus of the school's media studies, as students are tasked with learning the role of the media. The college offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs. Available courses of study include political communication, global communication, visual communication, children and the media and new media technology. The University of Pennsylvania has created a number of ongoing projects that study and promote best practices in the media. They include the Annenberg Public Policy Center, the Center for Global Communication Studies and the Institute for Public Service.

  The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania
  3620 Walnut St.
  Philadelphia, PA 19104
  215-898-7041
  www.asc.upenn.edu/about

Syracuse University

• The second-ranked school in the poll is found at Syracuse University. The Newhouse School of Public Communications offers majors in print journalism, broadcast journalism and photography and puts a large emphasis on Internet mass communications and multimedia studies. Admission to the school is very competitive according to the information provided by College Crunch. The Newhouse School works closely with partners in the working media to keep its students on top of the most current trends in media and communications, and it prepares students for work in print as well as online, in advertising, public relations and even movie and film production.

  Syracuse University
  Newhouse School of Public Communications
  215 University Place
  Syracuse, NY 13244
  315-443-4493
  newhouse.syr.edu

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has more than 100 different major courses of study available to students in its department of communication studies. UNC provides a research-based approach to teaching students about the media, as they study the social, political, cultural and economic impact that the media have throughout the world. The university teaches its students to ask questions and find the answers as they look to better understand the ways people communicate with each other, in print, through speech and through use of various types of electronic media.

  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Department of Communication Studies
  CB# 3285, 115 Bingham Hall
  Chapel Hill, NC 27599
  919-962-2311
  comm.unc.edu

University of Michigan

• The communications degree programs at the University of Michigan focus on the powerful entity that the mass media have become for shaping thought and opinion in the world. UM focuses its education on the mass media and the technology that impacts the way information is distributed. Students discuss the impact of the media and the media's development. They also talk about the way media touch the lives of people every day and the way media are used for political and economic gain. The school is looking to create media-literate graduates, whether they eventually work in the industry or are merely consumers of the information it produces.

  University of Michigan
  1225 S. University Ave.
  Ann Arbor, MI 48104
  734-764-0420
  www.lsa.umich.edu/comm/about