2016 – 2017 Intercollegiate Winners
Since 1960, the overall ranking of the top schools in the writing category has been recognized. As the program grew to include photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia, monetary prizes were granted to the intercollegiate competitions in 1990, giving journalism schools a higher financial stake in the collective success of their students.
The Intercollegiate Competitions award prizes of $10,000, $4,000 and $2,000 to the top three universities in each division – writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia. This year a new $25,000 prize was added to the budget for the first-place Intercollegiate Overall winner–raising the Intercollegiate total to $89,000. Trophies are also awarded to the top ten schools in each category.
The accumulated points earned by individual students in the monthly writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia competitions determine these Intercollegiate rankings. The winners are those schools whose students have earned the highest total points in each division. The Overall Intercollegiate winners are those schools whose students have earned the highest accumulated points in all of the competitions.
Overall
| 1st Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $25,000 award |
| 2nd Place | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 3rd Place | Western Kentucky University |
| 4th Place – tie | University of Florida |
| 4th Place – tie | University of Missouri |
| 6th Place | Arizona State University |
| 7th Place | Pennsylvania State University |
| 8th Place | Indiana University |
| 9th Place | Syracuse University |
| 10th Place | University of Maryland |
Writing
| 1st Place | Indiana University, $10,000 award |
| 2nd Place | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $4,000 award |
| 3rd Place | Pennsylvania State University, $2,000 award |
| 4th Place | Oklahoma State University |
| 5th Place | University of Maryland |
| 6th Place | Syracuse University |
| 7th Place | University of Montana |
| 8th Place | University of Missouri |
| 9th Place | Northwestern University |
| 10th Place | Arizona State University |
Photojournalism
| 1st Place | Western Kentucky University, $10,000 award |
| 2nd Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $4,000 award |
| 3rd Place | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $2,000 award |
| 4th Place | Ohio University |
| 5th Place | Syracuse University |
| 6th Place | University of Florida |
| 7th Place | Arizona State University |
| 8th Place | San Francisco State University |
| 9th Place | Pennsylvania State University |
| 10th Place | Kent State University |
Radio and Television
| 1st Place | University of Missouri, $10,000 award |
| 2nd Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $4,000 award |
| 3rd Place | Arizona State University, $2,000 award |
| 4th Place | University of Southern California |
| 5th Place | University of Florida |
| 6th Place | University of Maryland |
| 7th Place | Eon University |
| 8th Place – tie | Northwestern University |
| 8th Place – tie | Temple University |
| 10th Place | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Multimedia
| 1st Place | Western Kentucky University, $10,000 award |
| 2nd Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $4,000 award |
| 3rd Place | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $2,000 award |
| 4th Place | University of Florida |
| 5th Place | San Francisco State University |
| 6th Place | Arizona State University |
| 7th Place | University of Missouri |
| 8th Place | Pennsylvania State University |
| 9th Place | Northwestern University |
| 10th Place | University of Oregon |
