The College of Communication Arts and Sciences was established in 1955 and was the first of its kind in the United States. The college's Media and Information Studies doctoral program was ranked No. 2 in 2007 by "The Chronicle of Higher Education" in the category of mass communication. The communication doctoral program was ranked No. 4 in a separate category of communication in "The Chronicle of Higher Education"'s 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, published in 2007. The college's faculty and alumni include eight Pulitzer Prize winners and a two-time Emmy Award winning recording mixer.