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The Cronkite School is widely recognized as one of the nation’s premier journalism programs. Rooted in the time-honored values that characterize its namesake — accuracy, responsibility, objectivity, integrity — the school fosters journalistic excellence and ethics among students as they master the professional skills they need to succeed in the digital media world of today and tomorrow.
 
Located on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus in the heart of the nation’s fifth-largest city, the School has a full-time faculty of 69, a professional staff of more than 50 and annual resources of more than $40 million.
 
Nearly 2,000 undergraduate students, 300 master’s students and 15 doctoral students are enrolled at Cronkite, preparing for careers in journalism, strategic media and related communications fields.
 
Of the undergraduate residential student population, more than 60 percent come from out-of-state and more than 37 percent are students of color. The retention rate consistently exceeds 90 percent, and Cronkite students regularly lead the country in national journalism competitions.
 
The School offers both residential and online degree programs. At the undergraduate level, these include the residential bachelor’s in Journalism and Mass Communication or the bachelor’s in Sports Journalism. Specializations are available in bilingual journalism, business journalism and strategic media/public relations. Undergraduate bachelor’s programs for remote students are the new Digital Audiences program or Mass Communication and Media Studies.
 
At the master’s level, students may pursue the MA in Journalism and Mass Communications; Sports Journalism; or Investigative Journalism. The School also offers dual degrees in medicine and journalism with the Mayo Clinic and in journalism and legal studies with the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Online master’s degrees are available in Digital Media Strategies or Business Journalism
 
The School also offers a scholarly research-oriented Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in journalism and mass communication with a focus on original research, faculty-student mentoring, interdisciplinary experiences and flexibility.
 
Cronkite leads the way in journalism education with its innovative use of the news teaching hospital model, for which it has received international acclaim. Cronkite offers 15 different full-immersion professional programs in which students work in intensive, real-world settings under the guidance of top-flight professionals and in collaboration with research faculty. The programs enable students to put into practice what they have learned in the classroom, producing news, information and community engagement on critical issues for the state, region and nation.
 
The Cronkite faculty is made up of award-winning professional journalists, strategic communications specialists and world-class media scholars. Cronkite professors include five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, digital media thought leaders, top TV producers and correspondents, major metropolitan newspaper editors and strategic communications experts.
 
The School is located in a state-of-the-art media complex that is considered one of the best journalism education facilities in the nation. It is equipped with 14 digital newsrooms and computer labs as well as three TV studios. It is home to Arizona PBS, one of the nation’s largest public television stations, which serves as the hub of the School’s “teaching hospital” and a testing ground for innovation in journalism. Students produce a nightly newscast that reaches 1.9 million households across Arizona on four TV channels and multiple digital platforms.
 
Journalism courses have been offered at ASU since 1931, and a Department of Mass Communication was formed in 1957. In 1984, the department was elevated to a school and named in honor of Walter Cronkite.
 
Over the past decade, the School has attracted more than $100 million in external funding from major corporations and nonprofit organizations for new learning and research partnerships. These include The Scripps Howard Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Hearst Foundations, Ford Foundation, Dow Jones News Fund, Google, Facebook and others.