2018 – 2019 Intercollegiate Winners
Since 1960, the overall ranking of the top schools in the writing category has been recognized. As the program grew to include photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia, monetary prizes were granted to the intercollegiate competitions in 1990, giving journalism schools a higher financial stake in the collective success of their students.
The Intercollegiate Competitions award prizes of $10,000, $4,000 and $2,000 to the top three universities in each division – writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia. In 2018, a new $25,000 prize was added to the budget for the first-place Intercollegiate Overall winner–raising the Intercollegiate total to $89,000. Trophies are also awarded to the top ten schools in each category.
The accumulated points earned by individual students in the monthly writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia competitions determine these Intercollegiate rankings. The winners are those schools whose students have earned the highest total points in each division. The Overall Intercollegiate winners are those schools whose students have earned the highest accumulated points in all of the competitions.
Overall
| 1st Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $25,000 award |
| 2nd Place | Arizona State University |
| 3rd Place | Pennsylvania State University |
| 4th Place | University of Florida |
| 5th Place | Western Kentucky University |
| 6th Place | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 7th Place | University of Missouri |
| 8th Place | Indiana University |
| 9th Place | University of Maryland |
| 10th Place | University of Montana |
Writing
| 1st Place | Indiana University, $10,000 award |
| 2nd Place | Pennsylvania State University, $4,000 award |
| 3rd Place | Arizona State University, $2,000 award |
| 4th Place | University of Maryland |
| 5th Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 6th Place | University of Oregon |
| 7th Place | University of Oklahoma |
| 8th Place | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale |
| 9th Place | Michigan State University |
| 10th Place -tie | University of Kentucky |
| 10th Place -tie | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Photojournalism
| 1st Place | Western Kentucky University, $10,000 award |
| 2nd Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $4,000 award |
| 3rd Place | Ohio University, $2,000 award |
| 4th Place | San Francisco State University |
| 5th Place | University of Iowa |
| 6th Place | Arizona State University |
| 7th Place | Ball State University |
| 8th Place | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 9th Place | University of Oregon |
| 10th Place | University of Kentucky |
Radio and Television
| 1st Place | University of Florida, $10,000 award |
| 2nd Place | Arizona State University, $4,000 award |
| 3rd Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $2,000 award |
| 4th Place | University of Missouri |
| 5th Place | Pennsylvania State University |
| 6th Place | Syracuse University |
| 7th Place | University of Maryland |
| 8th Place | University of Texas at Austin |
| 9th Place | Elon University |
| 10th Place | University of Nevada, Reno |
Multimedia
| 1st Place | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $10,000 award |
| 2nd Place | Western Kentucky University, $4,000 award |
| 3rd Place | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $2,000 award |
| 4th Place | Arizona State University |
| 5th Place | University of Florida |
| 6th Place | Pennsylvania State University |
| 7th Place | University of Montana |
| 8th Place | Temple University |
| 9th Place | University of Missouri |
| 10th Place | University of South Carolina |
