Arizona State University - Tempe
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Arizona State University - Tempe - Graduate (MS/PhD) Ratings | |||||||||||||||||||
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Total Grad Surveys | 27 |
Females | 10 |
Males | 17 |
Avg years at University | 2.5 |
Research Quality | C (4.8) |
Research Availability | C (4.4) |
Research Funding | C- (4.2) |
Graduate Politics | C (4.3) |
Not Errand Runners | C (4.4) |
Degree Completion | C+ (5.1) |
Alternative pay [ta/gsi] | C- (3.9) |
Sufficient Pay | C- (4.1) |
Competitiveness | C (4.5) |
Education Quality | C- (4.1) |
Faculty Accessibility | C- (4.1) |
Useful Research | C- (4.1) |
"Individual" treatment | D+ (3.2) |
Friendliness | C- (4.1) |
Safety | C+ (5.5) |
Campus Beauty | C (4.8) |
Campus Maintenance | B- (6.3) |
University Spending | C- (3.5) |
Extracurriculars | C+ (5.3) |
Scholastic Success | C (4.8) |
Surrounding City | B- (6.3) |
Social Life/ Environment | C+ (5.1) |
Things are improving. since when I was there. The academic standards are increasing. Most CS grads end up with decent jobs unless of course they spent all their time up taking easier courses with no vision.
Beware if you are thinking to take the thesis option for masters. The department is underfunded(when I was there) and most people end up staying at the university for years or taking up PhD instead.
Tempe is a pretty safe city with below average crime. There are tons of new companies coming to the lake side.
I ended up learning stuff and with a decent job. So I guess it was alright. And what they say is true, The parties are DOPE. GO DEVILS !
The funding scenario for graduate students is not too good. It is quite a struggle to find any assistance, and grades wont help much as everybody has a GPA over 3.5! The standards of the school have been improving of late, and there are a few very good professors out there in the EE dept. Facilities are good, and have certainly been improving. The weather is fairly good most of the year, and food as well as accomodation is cheap. Its a fun place to be in, and you will make many many friends from all over the world!
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The advisors are jaded at best, overworked, and don?t care if they?ve wasted your time and money with bad advice. That?s assuming you?re able to get time with any of them. This goes all the way up to the head of the advising department.
Expect ?part-time? enrollment to require a full time investment of time. Any meaningful learning happens outside the classroom because you are rarely tested on lecture material. These programs are not designed for domestic working professionals; they are catered to international students who legally can only work part time - a majority of students are international and they are charged higher tuition. ASU is in the money-making business, not the education business.
ASU is a degree mill. There is no meaningful refund policy - you won?t get your money back AT ALL if you drop after the first week. The testing in EVERY class is designed to produce a certain letter-grade distribution, not actually measure learning. Even the Vice Dean of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering does this with his classes, despite having a professional background in Quality Assurance.
Thesis is a living nightmare. Professors treat you like a lap dog and bear no mind towards the advancement of your ACTUAL thesis work. I spent at least 90% of the time for my thesis developing my professor?s personal project, not working on my thesis.
Tutoring centers either don?t exist or are a waste of time, despite how often they are promoted by the staff. I?ve been to the Math tutoring center dozens of times and never got any useful help. Always have to go to the Professor for meaningful help.
Professors teach as if they don?t actually want to, and only care about research. I?ve heard them refer to students as ?complainers? and ?whiners? on multiple occasions, which illustrates a shocking lack of empathy for an educator. This is especially a problem since the grading practices are so broken.I?ve heard good things about schools OTHER THAN the engineering school, however there might be similar issues - if less prevalent. The campus is very safe and actually very nice architecturally.