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. I’ve broken it down into 5-year intervals so you can see the progression toward more representation from non-MC25 schools. As mentioned in the Presentation, for those who graduated 1980-1999, the percentage of Post journalists is 55%; 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 (5)
Syracuse (4)
Harvard (2)
Indiana U (2)
Arizona State
Duke
Boston U
U Maryland College Park (4)
Columbia (2)
Yale (2)
Stanford
U Georgia
Concordia U
Miami U of Ohio
UCLA
U Florida (2)
U North Carolina Chapel Hill (2)
U Missouri (2)
New York U
Oklahoma State
Drake U
U Nebraska
2010-2014
U Maryland College Park (2)
Indiana U (2)
Calvin College
Notre Dame
Syracuse
U Southern California
Howard U
Dickinson College
U Washington
Michigan State
Harvard (2)
Ohio University
Wesleyan
Arizona State
The New School
Cornell
George Washington U
U South Carolina
U Pennsylvania
U Dayton
Corcoran College of Art and Design
Georgetown (2)
New York U
San Francisco State
U Minnesota
Emory U
Northwestern
Columbia
Yale
William and Mary
UC Berkeley
2005-2009
U Maryland College Park (2)
Louisiana State
Stanford
Texas Christian U
Northwestern
UC Los Angeles
American U
U Iowa
Princeton
Hamilton College
Vanderbilt
Hampshire College
George Washington U
U Oregon
Wheaton College
Yale
Haverford College
U Texas Austin
Hofstra U
Harvard
U Minnesota
U Pennsylvania
Penn State
U Connecticut
U Chicago
Johns Hopkins
2000-2004
Georgetown (2)
Northwestern
U Southern California
Wellesley College
American U
Columbia
CSU Fullerton
Harvard (2)
U Michigan
U Texas Austin
U Wisconsin
U Missouri
Radford U
New York U
U New Mexico
George Washington U
Tufts U
Cornell
U Virginia
U North Carolina Chapel Hill
Princeton
Source: washingtonpost.com
(Last updated February 2020)