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.ÌýNational 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: 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Graduating in 4 yrs 90% 88% 85% 88% 86% 87% 74% 80% 86% 87% 91% 85% 87%
Graduating in 5 yrs 91% 89% 85% 90% 89% 88% 75% 80% 87% 88% 91% 97% --
Graduating in 6 yrs 91% 90% 86% 90% 89% 90% 76% 80% 88% 88% -- -- --

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Retention rates for JMC/Journalism majors admitted as freshmen based on enrollment the second fall semester after admission: Ìý
Ìý 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
ÌýIn Journalism program 93% 87% 87% 73% 83% 77% 82% 94% 96% 93% 99% 96% 92% 92% 98%
ÌýAt CU Â鶹ӰԺ, in Journalism or another program 100% 96% 100% 77% 87% 82% 89% 95% 95% 95% 95% 95% 92% 95% 96%

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

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Year Entered MA 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Graduating in 3 semesters 4% 5% 0 0 9% 0 7% 14% 0 0 0 18 ---
Graduating in 4 semesters 50% 39% 45% 67% 36% 86% 77% 42% 88% 40% 60% 36 ---
Graduating in 5 semesters 0 6% 10% 0 0 0 14% 14% 0 0 20% --- ---
Graduating in 6 semesters 17% 0 0 0 9% 0 0 0 0 0 --- --- ---
Total graduated 71% 50% 55% 67% 54% 86% 98% 70% 88% 40% 80% 55% ---

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