The College of Media, Communication and Information has one program—Journalism—that is accredited by the national Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. National accreditation involves being reviewed by academics from other universities and by media professionals to make sure that we continue to provide a quality education has a strong faculty and the resources to enable students excel.

The following tables represent the graduation and retention rates of students entering the former program in Journalism and Mass Communication. The graduation tables represent students admitted directly as freshmen (direct freshmen admissions began in fall 2012), along with transfer students. The retention tables represent only freshmen direct admits.

Freshmen: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Graduating in 4 yrs 93% 90% 88% 85% 88% 86% 87% 74% 80% 86% 87% 91% 85%
Graduating in 5 yrs 94% 91% 89% 85% 90% 89% 88% 75% 80% 87% 88% 91% --
Graduating in 6 yrs 94% 91% 90% 86% 90% 89% 90% 76% 80% 88% 88% -- --

 

Retention rates for JMC/Journalism majors admitted as freshmen based on enrollment the second fall semester after admission:  
  2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
 In Journalism program 87% 93% 87% 87% 73% 83% 77% 82% 80% 83% 89% 93% 91% 90% 91%
 At CU Boulder, in
Journalism or another program
91% 100% 96% 100% 77% 87% 82% 89% 89% 90% 88% 96% 82% 91% 89%

 

The following table represents the graduation rates for students admitted to Journalism and Mass Communication’s journalism newsgathering master’s degree program.

 

Year Entered MA 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Graduating in 3 semesters 5% 4% 5% 0 0 9% 0 7% 14% 0 0   0
Graduating in 4 semesters 58% 50% 39% 45% 67% 36% 86% 77% 42% 87.5% 40% 40% ---
Graduating in 5 semesters 11% 0 6% 10% 0 0 0 14% 14% 0 0 20% ---
Graduating in 6 semesters 0 17% 0 0 0 9% 0 0 0 0 0 --- ---
Total graduated 74% 71% 50% 55% 67% 54% 86% 98% 70% 87.5% 40% 60% ---