This list includes journalists who finished their undergraduate studies in the 21st century and who are either on the Washington Post’s staff or who write regular columns for them. As mentioned in the Presentation, for those who graduated 1980-1999, the percentage of Post journalists from a non-MC25 school is 56%; for those who graduated 2000-2019, that number is 66%, meaning almost two thirds of journalists at one of the most coveted spots for the profession attended colleges not on the MC25 list. Their are plenty of jobs available for those who develop their writing abilities at less selective colleges.

(Note: numbers in parentheses indicate instances where more than one person from that school is represented.)

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Washington Post Journalists

2015-2019

Northwestern U (8)

George Washington (2)

Harvard (2)

Yale

Arizona State

Duke

Boston U

Columbia College (Chicago)

U Florida

U Southern California

Grinnell College

U Maryland College Park (4)

Columbia (3)

Indiana U (2)

Stanford

U Georgia

Concordia U

Miami U of Ohio

UCLA

Syracuse

George Mason U

Emmanuel College

American U (2)

U North Carolina Chapel Hill (2)

U Missouri (2)

New York U

Howard U

Drake U

U Nebraska

Brown U

CUNY Baruch

Oakland U

2010-2014

Yale (5)

Indiana U (2)

Calvin College

U Chicago

Duke

U Southern California

Eugene Lang College

Dickinson College

U Miami

Michigan State

Hamilton College

University of Maryland College Park (2)

Wesleyan (2)

Ohio U

Princeton

Miami U

Cornell

George Washington U

New York U

U Pennsylvania

U of the Pacific

U Vermont

Georgetown (2)

U South Carolina (2)

Western Washington U

Vassar

Emory U

Carleton College

Columbia

Harvard

William and Mary

UC Berkeley

2005-2009

U Maryland College Park (3)

Louisiana State (2)

Stanford (2)

Texas Christian U (2)

Northwestern (2)

U Virginia

American U

Harvard

Ohio U

U Florida

U Central Florida

U North Carolina Chapel Hill (3)

Vanderbilt (2)

U Michigan (2)

George Washington U (2)

Brown (2)

Barnard College

Yale

Haverford College

Florida State

U Puget Sound

Hofstra U

U Texas Austin

U Missouri (2)

Valparaiso (2)

U Iowa (2)

Washington U in St. Louis (2)

UC Los Angeles (2)

Emory

U Connecticut

Ithaca College

Johns Hopkins

Hamilton College

Boston U

2000-2004

Yale (3)

U Missouri (2)

San Diego State

Amherst College

American U

UC Berkeley

CSU Fullerton

Harvard (3)

Cornell (2)

U Texas Austin

U Delaware

Northwestern

U New Mexico

New York U

UC Santa Cruz

U Miami (2)

Georgetown

Tufts U

U Michigan

Western Kentucky U

U North Carolina Chapel Hill

Williams College

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(Last updated 4/5/2021))