2025 Best General Journalism Schools in Connecticut
3Colleges in Connecticut
129Journalism Degrees Awarded
Ranked #69 in popularity, general journalism is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for general journalism students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 129 degrees in general journalism annually.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general journalism schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Journalism Schools in Connecticut list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Journalism in Connecticut
The schools below may not offer all types of journalism degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's difficult to beat Quinnipiac University if you want to pursue a degree in general journalism. Located in the large suburb of Hamden, Quinnipiac is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 5th out of 18 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 76 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at Quinnipiac in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Connecticut is a great option for students pursuing a degree in general journalism. Located in the fringe town of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #57 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were approximately 34 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Central Connecticut State University if you want to pursue a degree in general journalism. Located in the large suburb of New Britain, CCSU is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 14th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 14 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at CCSU 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general journalism schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
