International students wishing to study journalismare in luck—the US is rifewith top schools for journalism spread throughout the country. The hard part is finding "the best" journalism school (or, j-school) out there. The journalism community has a general consensuson what they consider the best schools for journalism, but it's ranking them that are the hard part. You can find the top ranked law or business school in the country, but j-school rankings are nearly non-existent. 决定赴美学习新闻专业的留学生很幸运——美国拥有遍布全国的顶尖新闻院校（简称j-school），困难的反而是找到“最好的”那一所。新闻界对他们认为最好的新闻学院有一个普遍共识，但对这些好学校排名才是最难的“趴”。你可以找到法学院商学院的全国排名，但新闻学院的排名几部不存在。
How do you measure a degree in journalism? By the success of a journalism school's graduates? Or by the meritsof each university's program—and what exactly does that consist of? 应该如何衡量新闻学位？通过新闻专业毕业生成功案例？还是根据每所大学课程的价值？评价体系是如何构成的？
One method is looking for anaccreditedj-school by an organization such as the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC). Their last list was published in January 2012 and includes 109 accredited schools in the US, including one in Chile. According to the ACEJMC, school accreditation "is a measure of the program's compliancewith basic standards and of how well the program achieves its stated mission." But there are more than 400 US schools with journalism programs, and their list isby no meansperfect. They do not rank schools, nor do they automatically review every journalism program in the country. Accreditation by the ACEJMC is voluntary. 一种方法，是寻找一所经过诸如新闻和大众传播教育认证委员会这样（权威）机构认证的新闻院校。机构最后一份名单于2012年1月公布，名单中包括109所经过认可的美国院校，其中有一所位于智利。据ACEJMC的说法，学校认证“是衡量该专业是否符合基本标准、是否能够完成既定教学目标的一种手段”。但实际上美国有400多所学校开设了新闻专业，而且这个名单绝对不完美。比如机构未对学校排名，也不自动复查每一所新闻院校——ACEJMC的认证是自愿的。
Northwestern University 西北大学
Founded in 1921 and situated in the mid-west, just outside of Chicago, is Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Setting aside it's renowned j-school (you can count more than 30 Pulitzer Prize winners as part of Northwestern's alumni), the university as a whole is ranked #12 in U.S. News and World Reports Best Colleges 2012 rankings for national universities. Northwestern works on an academic quarter system. Students are expected to take four courses per quarter, for four quarters every academic year. An undergraduate degree is completed in four years. Graduate degrees in journalism vary from 8 months to one year. 西北大学的梅迪尔新闻学院成立于1921年，位于中西部芝加哥市郊。撇开它著名的新闻院校身份不谈（曾有30名校友获普利策奖），整个学校在《美国新闻与世界报道》2012年全美最佳国立大学排名中位列12。西北大学实行学术季度制，学生每季度修4门课程，每4季度构成1学年，本科学位在4年内取得。新闻专业研究生学位取得时间从8个月到1年不等。
As a graduate student at one of the top schools for journalism, students are given the unique opportunity to work in Northwestern's Chicago and Washington D.C. newsrooms and file stories with multimedia news outlets. Degree programs include a Masters of Science in Journalism or a Master's Degree for Experienced Professionals (requiring 7 years of journalism experience). 作为顶尖新闻院校之一的研究生，学生们有难能可贵的在西北大学芝加哥和华盛顿新闻编辑室工作、并为多媒体新闻机构提供报道的机会。学位课程包括新闻科学硕士或新闻学专业硕士（需要7年的新闻行业工作经验）。
--Source: Bloomberg
--文章来源：《彭博商业周刊》
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