2025 Best General Journalism Schools in Washington
3Colleges in Washington
163Journalism Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in general journalism, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #69 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Journalism Schools in Washington ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 163 degrees in general journalism to qualified students.
The journalism program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Journalism rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Journalism School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Journalism Schools in Washington list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the journalism degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student who is interested in general journalism needs to check out University of Washington - Seattle Campus. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #44 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UW Seattle is a great university overall.
There were roughly 45 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at UW Seattle in the most recent year we have data available.
Western Washington University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general journalism. WWU is a large public university located in the small city of Bellingham. This university ranks 5th out of 50 colleges for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were roughly 67 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at WWU in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in general journalism has to look into Washington State University. Located in the town of Pullman, Wazzu is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 50 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were approximately 34 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at Wazzu in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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The journalism program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Journalism rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Journalism School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
