Enrollment, retention and graduation rates

According to Ohio University’s Office of Institutional Research, the most recent findings
(2005-2006 academic year) report that the Scripps College’s yield rate or percentage of those admitted who choose to attend is 58%, with the national average being 47%. In addition, the Scripps College's first-year student retention rate is 90%, and 86% of students graduate in 4.19 years. These rates are among the best of all units at Ohio University.

In addition, the average ACT score for first-year Scripps College of Communication students in Fall 2006 was 24.66, three and a half percentage points higher than the national average of 21.1.

 Rankings

In March 2008, the graduate program in the J. Warren McClure School of Information and Telecommunication Systems won the Program of Excellence Award from the International Telecommunications Education and Research Association.

The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism has been ranked among the top 5 nationally by Writer's Digest and among the top 10 nationally by the Associated Press Managing Editors Association.

Two of the doctoral programs in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University were recently ranked in the top ten communication programs in a reputational study conducted by the National Communication Association (NCA), the largest academic association of scholars of communication in the country. Several others within the Scripps College were also ranked.

Student Accomplishments

The Forensics Speech and Debate Team recently returned from the 37th National Forensics Association Individual Events Tournament hosted by Berry College in Rome, Ga., where it placed 2nd in Division II and 11th among all teams in the nation.

Visual Communication junior Travis Dove has been named the 2007 College Photographer of the Year in the competition sponsored by the University of Missouri. The win marks the second year in a row the competition has been won by a student from Ohio University. Last year's winner was Matt Eich.

FOX News Channel’s “FOX & Friends” broadcasted live from Baker University Center on March 4 and 5 with Scripps College of Communication students in the spotlight. As part of the program, Forensics Team members engaged in two brief mock debates to represent the views of presidential candidates and students from throughout the college participated in a focus group and shared their political views on national television.

The School of Visual Communication’s Soul of Athens Web site won Best Use of the Web in the National Press Photographers Association 2008 Best of Photojournalism Web sites division.

Faculty Accomplishments

In 2007, for the first time, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has bestowed its top research honors on two professors from a single university: Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Scripps Survey Research Center Director Guido H. Stempel III and Professor Patrick Washburn, both of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in the Scripps College of Communication.

In addition, 30 Scripps College of Communication faculty have been named University Professors since the program's inception in 1970. The most recent honoree (2007-2008) is Eric Williams, of the School of Media Arts and Studies.