General Information
The University of Texas at Austin College of Communication is the Communication College at The University of Texas at Austin. The College was established in 1965 in an effort to consolidate the all Communication Studies under one roof including the Department of Public Speaking (1899), School of Journalism (1914), and independent department of Radio-Television-Film (1921). The College is home to one of the countries top film programs as well as a Journalism department which consistently produces the nation's number one college newspaper. The College of Communication offers Bachelor of Science degrees in several communications disciplines as well as offering a robust postgraduate circulum.
Admissions for undergraduate students are handled by the universities undergraduate admissions in general. Along with the schools of Architecture, Business, and Engineering, admissions into the College of Communication is highly selective. Of the 3,270 freshman applying to the school for fall 2008, 790 were admitted leading to an overall acceptance rate of 24.1%, roughly half the rate of the university as a whole. For this reason, many UT students apply for an internal transfer while completing their core requirements. The school leaves on average 200 spots per year for internal transfers and 80 spots for external transfers though official numbers are not disclosed. Within the school itself, the Journalism and Radio-Television-Film programs are the most highly sought after with a total undergraduate population of 707 and 876 respectively in the spring of 2008.
The communication college has matriculated several distinguished alumni including Walter Cronkite, Lady Bird Johnson, and Matthew McConaughey. Filmmakers, Wes Anderson, graduated with a BA in Philosophy from the University of Texas and Richard Linklater, though did not graduate, are former students of the college. In 2008, Robert Rodriguez, graduated from the college with a BS in Radio-Television-Film and was the University of Texas at Austin Spring 2009 Wide-Commencement Speaker. The College has also been the starting place for many famous cartoonists including Ben Sargent, Roy Crane, and Berkeley Breathed who had all drawn for The Daily Texan during their tenure.
Programs
Filmmaking
Feature Filmmaking
Commercial Filmmaking
Digital Filmmaking
Documentary Filmmaking
Directing
Editing
Cinematography
Screenwriting
Degrees
BA
MFA
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This school is good, because
Submitted by stephjk on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 3:18am.
This school is good, because of its location also. Austin is filming central- refered as something like the other LA... there are a lot of famous people who come into town working on their latest films, so there are also a lot of opportunities to try and work on sets to get experience and to help make contacts. there were some wierd things, but i think that this is a school that if you are dedicated to putting in a lot of work, you will get a lot back, and really make your education (and all the money you are pouring in) worth it.
I just started here and I
Submitted by futrfilmr on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 3:14am.
I just started here and I love it! The only thing that is tough is that half of the students get what we are learning in terms of the digital editing stuff, and the other half don't get it at all. Personally, I came into here with no prior experience in any of this stuff, so its hard to keep up with everything.
Also, a wierd thing about the school is that its general knowledge that the people who work at the equipment checkout are really moody and you have to be super nice to them if you hope to get anything from them. Our profs mention it in the first week...
Austin is really great though, the juniors and seniors work on a lot of films around the city, and think thre are a lot of supportive businesses who let you film, and give good deals on using them. I'm super excited to continue with the school!
to the guy below, ya, Austin
to the guy below, ya, Austin is a fun place to film, but, i honestly think that I would not have gone through this program if i knew what i know now.
The classes (and in my case, for narrative), teach about the basic mold of making films in terms of lighting and the rule of thirds, and all else that comes between that. We only had one producing class, and it didint really hlep us much in terms of what its like to actually work in the industry.
the program was ok, but it really doens't help a bit with telling the students how cut-throat hollywood is. I felt like we were made to worship robert rodriguez - who never even graduated, and had to watch his short 20 + times, and memorise it.
Instead of doing film, i should have taken Business Admin or something else that can prepare me to deal with people and have my way, becuase that is the real difficulty in trying to make films.