Philip Merrill College of Journalism - University of Maryland

About Philip Merrill College of Journalism - University of Maryland

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. The college provides immersive professional experiences throughout its curriculum and runs one of the country’s oldest and strongest student-powered news operations–Capital News Service–with bureaus in Washington, D.C., Annapolis and College Park. Merrill students also produce an evening TV news program that airs on the Internet and is broadcast by UMTV to more than 400,000 households in suburban Washington. The University of Maryland’s journalism school offers all the resources of a top-ranked public research institution located minutes away from Washington, D.C., Annapolis and Baltimore. Its unmatched access to internships in one of the nation’s top media markets and opportunities to learn from the pros working in today’s multimedia newsrooms make the Philip Merrill College of Journalism a training ground like no other. Our students are #MerrillMade.