Named for its most famous alumnus, the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University is highly regarded nationwide by educators and professionals alike. It has won national and regional Emmys for student television productions, is ranked fourth nationally in television news, and ranked first in the Northwest for its public relations sequence. The school has a diverse faculty and student body.
The Edward R. Murrow School of Communication is the only program in the Northwest that offers sequences in six communication fields: advertising, broadcasting, communication, communication studies, journalism, and public relations. It offers the only comprehensive broadcast program in the state of Washington. The school is noted for combining both professional skill building and theory and is one of only a few programs in the nation that airs a daily, student produced television newscast.
Students enrolled in the School have opportunities to use some of the latest technology available to the communications industry, including computer labs and research rooms with special one-way observation windows, a director’s booth, four edit suites, and a 175-seat auditorium with walls that open to reveal a digital TV studio. Much of that technology is located in a three-story addition to the Murrow School that opened in 2004.
