Columbia J School

Class Overview
The Office of Admission and Financial Aid received about 933 applications for our four degree programs and admitted roughly 497 students who come from a wide variety of previous jobs, places and backgrounds.
In our largest degree-granting program, the full-time Master of Science, those admitted hail from 35 states and the District of Columbia. The top states represented among the admitted students are New York, California, New Jersey, Texas, Massachusetts, Florida and the District of Columbia. In addition, 39 percent of the class is international, with the largest groups hailing from United Kingdom, India, Canada, China, France, and South Africa.
This year, 71 percent of those admitted to the M.S. class are female and 29 percent are male. In the Master of Arts class, 44 percent are male and 56 percent are female, with 51 percent coming from outside of the United States. Of the four students admitted to the doctoral program in communications, two are male and two are female. One is from the United States and three are international. We admitted 9 students into our M.S. dual degree program with Computer Science. There are four females and five males, with five international students. In terms of racial diversity, 27 percent of the entire class identified as African American, Asian, Latino or Native American.