Missouri School of Journalism

in 1908, walter williams founded a school–the world’s first to offer a journalism degree and still the most renowned to this day. the “j-school,” as it is often called, awarded the world’s first undergraduate degree in journalism (1909), master’s degree in journalism (1921) and doctorate degree in journalism (1934). located at the heart of mizzou’s beautiful 1,262-acre campus, the missouri school of journalism is where storytellers of all kinds can find their voices by using them first. this hands-on philosophy of learn-by-doing was deemed “the missouri method.” today, the missouri method allows students to gain hands-on, career-ready experience in six professional newsrooms–including an nbc affiliate, an npr-member station, a digital-first community newspaper–and two advertising agencies with paying national clients.