Since 1993, RTF students have won 43 Grand Prizes at the National Broadcasting Society National Student Electronic Media Competition.

Since 1988, nine RTF students have won intensely competitive internships through the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Student Internship Program (including four in the 21st century). ATAS offers thirty-five eight-week paid ($4,000) summer internships in twenty-nine categories of telecommunications work. For 10 consecutive years, it has been selected as one of the top ten internship programs of any kind in the United States.

In the 21st century, ten students and alumni have won First, Second, or Third at the national WSF Screenwriting Awards (four have won First). This competition is open to all writers (not just students), and the final round of judging is typically by a prominent Hollywood writer or producer. (For example, one of the years an RTF student won, final judging was done by Burt Metcalf, who was the executive producer of the classic television series M*A*S*H).

At the 2007 National Broadcasting Society National Student Electronic Media Competition, four student projects were selected as Finalists, with three of them winning the Grand Prize in their respective categories. Maria Bartholdi won in the Audio Feature Segment category for her WRST-FM feature "Anywhere But Now"; Josh Nelson and Ryan Wing won in the Video Sports Play by Play category for their Titan TV Sports broadcast of "Men's Basketball: UW-Oshkosh vs. UW-Stevens Point"; and Tim Ziegler (writer/director), Meredith Lynn (producer), Adam Haas (producer), Luke Kalteux (cinematographer), and Shelli Wenzel won in the Video Drama category for their motion picture short "Pinmonkey". The additional project selected as Finalist was Jon Stricklin's WRST-FM feature "Buckstaff Planetarium" in the Audio Feature Segment category.

Sarah Garfinkle was selected as one of the three finalists n the Children's Proramming/Development category of the 2007 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Student Internship Program.

In the Television category of the 2006-07 national WSF Screenwriting Awards, Radio-TV-Film students and alumni again swept all three awards. Nicholas Gumm won First Place for his spec script for The Office, Eric Strelitzer won Second Place for an original script, and D.J. Kast won Third Place for his Family Guy spec script.