If you plan on majoring in journalism, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #69 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Journalism Schools in Utah ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 140 degrees in journalism annually.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Journalism Schools in Utah list, to help you choose the best school for 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.
Brigham Young University - Provo is a good option for students interested in a degree in journalism. Located in the midsize city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Journalism degree recipients from Brigham Young University - Provo get an earnings boost of around $10,529 over the average earnings of journalism graduates.
Utah State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in journalism. USU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Logan.
Degree recipients from the journalism program at Utah State University earn $5,308 more than the typical college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
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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