Journalism at Columbia University in the City of New York

If you plan to study journalism, take a look at what Columbia University in the City of New York has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 30,135. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 133 students received their master's degree in journalism.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Journalism section at the bottom of this page.

Columbia Journalism Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Journalism

Columbia Journalism Rankings

Journalism Student Demographics at Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the journalism majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia Journalism Master’s Program

Of the 133 journalism students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Columbia, about 31% were men and 69% were women.

In the journalism master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 34% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a master's in journalism.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	61
International Students	23
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Related Majors

• Public Relations & Advertising
• Communication & Media Studies

Careers That Journalism Grads May Go Into

A degree in journalism can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Editors	19,140	$83,070
Writers and Authors	7,410	$86,380
Film and Video Editors	4,590	$92,170
Reporters and Correspondents	4,540	$81,930
Photographers	4,090	$53,150

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nandaro under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.