[Sainters7]

Took broadcasting at MRC, graduated a couple years back. Was a good program, but it depends on what aspect of broadcasting youre looking in getting into. If its just on-air, MRC's a good choice, but anything behind the scenes and I'd go to SAIT. I'm told it's the MUCH better technical school. My friend who I took broadcasting with is an on-air personality on the radio in Calgary now and she told me SAIT students would come in fresh from college and know stuff we were never even told about in college.

Also, their practicum is 3 months, whereas MRC's is 3 weeks(unless its changed since I graduated). The dif. in this is that a 3 month practicum can usually land you a job with the people you were temping for, whereas with a 3-week practicum, unless you absolutely light it up, chances are you'll be searching for work elsewhere. I did my practicum at CKSA in Lloydminster and on day 1 I was basically told by the station manager not to expect a job afterwards, because the NAIT kids(I'm told similar practicum style to SAIT) have a 3 month practicum so they usually just hire them out of familiarity by the time it's done.

The great thing about MRC though is, if you wanna do sports, they seem to have a great rep with TSN. Every year TSN has an internship in which they only take 10 students from across the country. Thousands of students all over Canada applied, and out of the 10, THREE were from MRC. Our prof told us those were pretty consistent #'s for MRC over the years in that regard.

Also, I completely agree with rockstar, make sure this is something you really wanna do. After a year out in the field I soon discovered that broadcasting is not for me, and am now back in school. I used up most of my college scholarship fund from broadcasting so am now in loan heaven(aka hell). Not a big deal, I'm sure most people are on loans. Just something I wish I wouldve avoided by taking something I knew I wanted to do with my life.

PM me if theres anything else I can help you with. Good luck!