The University of Missouri has an outstanding journalism school. It is highly respected across the country.
BUT, when I was going to Mizzou 1969-1973, we laughed mercilessly at the J-School majors. It was widely recognized even then as the place to be if you couldn’t hack it in any other department. Even then!
Same thing at the same time at Wayne State University in Deetroit. I was in pre-med. All the journalism majors I knew laid around the student union making out and smoking weed. The education majors sat around the tables making out and drinking coffee and they had the better looking females ;-)