E. W. Scripps School of Journalism
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The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism is one of five schools in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Its students choose from six sequences within the Bachelor of Science in Journalism: advertising, broadcast news, public relations, magazine journalism, news writing and editing and, of recent addition, online journalism. The school also offers a Master's of Science in Journalism and a Ph.D. in Mass Communication.
Many of the students work for Athens, Ohio's student-run independent newspaper, The Post, as well as the campus yearbook and The Ohio Journalist, the journalism alumni magazine. Broadcast news students receive training over the university's TV and cable stations and the radio station, WOUB.
The school is ranked by Writer's Digest as one of the top five in the country, and in the top ten nationally by the AP Managing Editor's Associations. It is one of 105 accredited journalism programs in the country, and The Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University has been commented on by Guide to 101 of the Best Values in America's Colleges and Universities, which states:
- "Any student interested in telecommunications, communication systems management, communication studies, visual communication or journalism ought to apply here first. These programs are that good."
Ohio University enrolls more than 16,000 undergraduate students and is located in the rural Athens, Ohio.
