“They will have demonstrable audience growth. They will have a platform of their choice with real content and real followers and a real audience behind them.”
A 120-credit BA where the capstone is your follower count. Grading students on a number that TikTok and Instagram control by algorithm means the university is outsourcing assessment to companies that change the rules quarterly. The Cronkite School is a real journalism program, and this is a state school selling four years of tuition against a career path that mostly does not pay. Somebody will graduate with debt and 4,000 followers.