This study focuses on the role of studying media literacy in acquiring skills for media college students in Egypt on their recognition of fake news on social media . The study suggests four research hypotheses, three of which were concerned with the role of studying MIL, average social media usage, and type of college ownership in identifying fake news, while the fourth hypothesis was focused on the relationship between institutional and user generated news and believability. A nonequivalent quasi experimental study was structured on a non-random purposive sample of 125 respondents of both a treatment and a control group was selected. The study found that studying media literacy course was helpful in assisting respondents in detecting fake news . However, respondents' ability to recognize fake news was relatively low where respondents' perceived ability to detect fake news was less than their actual performance. The study recommended essentials in establishing media literacy course descriptions for detecting fake news.