Urgent photojournalism question?

I wish to study photojournalism at UNC Chapel Hill. Currently I live in NC and photography and traveling are my passions...im in high school.
1. Is the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-CH a good choice for photojournalism?
any advice for an amateur photographer would be greatly appreciated. i'm working on a Canon A-560 and I plan to invest in a canon DSLR in the next few years.

UNC Chapel Hill wouldn't be a bad choice for photojournalism - while it's not necessarily one of the schools that gets mentioned for PJ excellence, a program is more what you make of it than anything else. Almost any university can be a great one to do virtually any major, as long as you put forth a lot of effort, and UNC is no exception - in fact, because it's a big D1 school, it might be even better for you.

If you go there and get heavily involved in the campus paper or other publications, apply yourself and out-hustle everyone else, it'll be better than you can imagine.

And because it's UNC, there'll be a lot of outside folks coming in to shoot on campus, especially when it comes to sports. Try to get in with them as an assistant and sponge up all the knowledge you can; that'll make your education that much more complete.