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.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Journalism Schools in Minnesota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 138 degrees in general journalism during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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.
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 Minnesota list to help you make the college decision.
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 Minnesota - Twin Cities. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #51 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were about 111 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat University of St Thomas Minnesota if you want to pursue a degree in general journalism. Located in the large city of Saint Paul, UST MN is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 52 colleges for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were approximately 11 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at UST MN in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Minnesota - Duluth is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general journalism. UMN Duluth is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Duluth. This university ranks 9th out of 52 colleges for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were about 11 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at UMN Duluth in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
