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.
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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
UC Los Angeles
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))