Medill was founded in 1921 and named for Chicago Tribune editor, publisher and owner Joseph Medill. The Medill School of Journalism and the Integrated Marketing Communications Program are located in Evanston, Ill., at Northwestern University with additional educational venues in downtown Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Full-time faculty members = 48
Undergraduate students = 650
Graduate Students = 300

Undergraduate Journalism Program
Medill provides journalism education on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The undergraduate program is a full-time, four-year program that incorporates a broad base of coursework in the liberal arts and sciences. Students applying to the undergraduate program must apply through the main Northwestern University Admissions Office. Graduates receive a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University.


Northwestern undergraduate students do broadcasts
for the Northwestern News Network (NNN), an undergraduate
extracurricular broadcast news organization.

Graduate Journalism Program
The graduate program is a full-time, one-year course of study. Students are admitted to the program three times a year with start dates in the winter, summer and fall. Graduates earn a Master of Science Degree in Journalism (MSJ) from Northwestern University.

Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)
The graduate program in integrated marketing communications is offered to students on a full-time and part-time basis and educates students for careers in marketing communications and marketing management. The program combines the traditional areas of marketing communications with business skills in marketing, finance, statistics and organizational behavior to form a unique program on the cutting edge of marketing communications and customer relationship management.

Northwestern excellence
Medill’s faculty members are leaders in their respective fields, working in state-of-the-art facilities that are available for student use. Today’s journalists must be broadly educated and well-rounded to understand and interpret the news. In this regard, Medill undergraduates, as students at one of America's leading universities, have advantages that are matched at few institutions. They are able to take courses from eminent faculty in six different undergraduate schools. Cultural and recreational opportunities are plentiful both on campus and in greater Chicagoland. The high academic caliber of the student body makes for a stimulating environment in and out of the classroom. Typically, half of the freshmen whose high schools rank students were in the top 4 percent of their classes. Northwestern's 7,500 undergraduate students come from all 50 states, several foreign countries and a variety of backgrounds. More than half are female and almost a third are members of minority groups.

Medill News Service
Medill reporters cover breaking stories in Chicago and Washington, D.C. on a daily basis.

National High School Institute (The Cherub Program)
Each summer, high school students from across the country (and the globe) come to Medill to study from the best in the business as part of the National High School Institute’s Journalism Division at Northwestern. The National High School Institute, established in 1931, is one of the nation's oldest and largest university based programs for outstanding high school students. The students
are affectionately called "Cherubs," a tradition that began in the 1940s.

Educational Venues
Medill has facilities in Evanston, Ill., Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Medill's History
Medill was founded in 1921 and named for Chicago Tribune editor, publisher and owner Joseph Medill.

Posted August 20, 2004 01:05 PM