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The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is one of the world’s leading journalism schools, with a distinguished faculty dedicated to enhancing the news industry and training the next generation of fearless journalists in a state-of-the-art facility near the nation’s capital.

• Merrill College educates students at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels within a liberal arts context, preparing them for careers in journalism, media, research, teaching and related fields.
• Merrill’s curriculum is one of the few in the nation focused solely on journalism – both broadcast and multiplatform – and its world-class faculty members have won numerous Pulitzer prizes and Emmy awards and conducted important media research.

Merrill’s journalism programs enroll about 550 undergraduates and about 100 graduate students. The school also offers a Graduate Certificate Program in Multimedia Journalism with weekend classes. The college is fully accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.