Is anyone else trying to decide between these two?
Berkeley is giving me some funding (very little though) and I feel that it has the better digital program. It's also in San Francisco, which would give me a great change from New York, where I am now. Small program is a plus, and it's much longer than Columbia's program.
Columbia is Columbia; I think it's really grand if you're doing print journalism, which I'm not. If you're going digital, I'm not sure that it can beat the west coast, especially Berkeley. But it's still located in the current center of the media world, so that's definitely a plus.
I'm leaning toward Berkeley, but any opinions out there that might be helpful?