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What is The Columbia Difference? It is our unique one-on-one proven training method.

Study at your own pace with a schedule convenient to you. You're in a class of one. Your classes are personalized. You'll have the individual attention of professional on-air instructors who work in the industry today and have established credentials as on air personalities.

The program is designed to prepare you for a career in the broadcasting industry. Every lesson advances your voice and your style to a new level.

Your instructors teach you what you need to know to succeed. The diversity of our instructors professional fields in the industry ensures that you will get a comprehensive range of experience to help you develop your own unique style.

We will instruct you in the subjects you need to get a job in the broadcasting and media industry.

There are no common curriculum courses, and you can graduate in eight to twelve months.

You can continue to work a full-time job while enrolled.

You don't have to take out a bank loan to start.


School's History

 

The Columbia School of Broadcasting was founded in 1964 in the State of California. Since that time, Columbia has trained over twenty thousand men and women around the English and Spanish speaking world in the field of broadcasting. Columbia began enrolling students in the greater Washington Metro area during January 1977. Since that time many of our graduates have gone on to work in radio and television stations in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Many graduates have decided to relocate to various areas of the United States as well as abroad.

In early 1992, the Washington Communication Center became the national headquarters for the Columbia School of Broadcasting and began operations as a proprietary school holding a certificate to operate from t he Virginia Board of Education. Today, Columbia trains students in our headquarters facility in Fairfax, Virginia as well as throughout the world with our distance education courses in Radio Announcing (English and Spanish) and Sportscasting Play-by-Play Broadcasting. Columbia is owned and operated by Columbia School of Broadcasting, Inc., a Delaware stock corporation.

In 1999, Columbia became the first school in the state, and one of the first schools in the nation to offer a course in Internet Broadcasting. We continue to improve our training curriculum to ensure that the skills you acquire through our institution are applicable in the modern broadcasting industry.