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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Electrical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright When you get out of school and start working, if your employer will pay for additional schooling, get your Masters before you start family. Starting Job: Test Engineer, Preparedness: B, Reputation: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Oct 26 2010 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=72309&uid=98'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright BEWARE of this university. It truly lives up to its nickname: NAU (Northern Arizona University)actually stands for Not A University! This is so very true. Very poor administration, advisers, professors, staff, etc. All this school cares about is the bottom line. They want $$$$$$$ and want to give nothing in return. They use and abuse students on a daily basis. The few good professors are either leaving, looking for another job or will be retiring soon. The degree programs are a joke. You either get told your degree means nothing or is worth very little once you are out in the job market. NAU is frowned upon by many employers and if you attempt to get your Masters at another school you are more than likely going to have to repeat many classes that you took at NAU. Why? Because they use lots of grad students to teach classes and sign off on those classes. Those class are not accepted on the Masters level...even at NAU itself. Yep..that's right. NAU will not honor some of its own classes if they were taught by a grad student which means you will be paying NAU twice for the same class. NAU IS A HUGE SCAM! NAU is combining schools to save money, but aren't increasing the number of professors, majors, advisers, housing, etc. Campus housing is deplorable with mold, poorly trained staff, heating and cooling problems, fires in dorms every year and much more. The cost is just below living off campus. The family housing is unacceptable and rundown. You can't get a roommate change unless that person chooese to leave or dies. Most of the dorms are old, dirty and disgusting. During the winter there is no snow/ice removal which results in many students with injuries. Be ready to pay for medical bills due to poor winter maintenance including the flu and colds because you won't have any hot water for weeks. Don't even attempt to live off campus as Flagstaff is not student friendly. A one bedroom starts at $800 and goes up quickly. Cost of food, clothes, toiletries, etc ...are out of sight. Living in this community will put you so far in debt you may never get out. The community does not support the students in any way. Instead it sucks the life out of students like a vampire. There is no industry with the exception of tourism and that is almost non-existent. Run, run, run away from NAU. If you decide to attend NAU be sure that all your classes can transfer in and out of NAU. NAU will claim that many classes you have taken at another school don't transfer. Then they will make you take a ton of classes that later you will find out.....won't transfer to another school as anything other than electives. NAU sucks! NAU truly is:NOT A UNIVERISTY! Faculty Accessibility: C-, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 30 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=51097&uid=98'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Political Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I'm an International Affairs major. This is a moderately sized state university known for its forestry and hotel management programs. Everything else I would estimate is standard-fare. Due to state budget cuts and mismanagement (students are doing the work of what a full-time staff should be provided for), the school feels haphazardly run. There is not a personal relationship with the school, you are a number, and the advisory help is poor. On the positive side, there is a fantastic library, the town of Flagstaff is beautiful, the campus is nice and the school costs are low. This is not an environment of serious-minded students pursuing college for an education. There is somewhat of a party atmosphere, and most kids are there to get a degree and enter the job market. I found very people to talk to or make friends with; a very poor intellectual environment within the student body. Most young people just want to drink and party -- it's a wonder they make it through school and out of it (then again, few do). I can't afford to go anywhere else, though. Surrounding City: A, Collaboration/Competitive: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 07 2003 1st Year Male -- Class 2005    Forward  Blog it! 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