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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Linguistics  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright I'm a transfer student from De Anza and went to SJSU since I could live home. I'm a get in and get out transfer student. I'm graduating in 4 semesters. IT IS POSSIBLE! Take some initiative and register at 5AM if that's what it takes. When I first arrived at SJSU, people laughed at my determination to graduate after four semesters. But I'm proof it can happen even with budget cuts going about. I don't like the tuition increases especially since I don't qualify for financial aid and I don't get help from family toward tuition. 3000+ to come up with each semester is difficult. To be honest, if money was no object, I would have gone to a different college (U of Hawai'i - Manoa for Korean and TESOL). Campus safety...yes there were murders, yes some girls get assaulted and molested late at night or early morning, yes the campus and library are full of hobos (who generally stay on the lower floors). I don't feel all that safe on campus at night and such. The library is good. And there's interlibrary loans, LINK+, online databases for even your database, and it's very easy to request material. That was one positive toward SJSU. VERY EASY to access information. The department is nice. Take any classes by Kumaravadivelu and Phillabaum! Their classes are either SJSU studies classes or the TESEOL related classes but both are great teachers. Koo is highly intelligent, but out side the classroom seems cold to student questions or visiting him in office hours. AVOID OHALA! I generally get along well with teachers/professors, but her is a different story. She's homophobic and racist (and I'm gay and she's said some things toward me; also expressed that since I was white that I couldn't speak Korean as well as a native speaker). Only take her phonetics class (LING 111) since she was trained by the most knowledgeable person in phonetics and her phonetics class is easier than Silverman's. Friendliness: A, Perceived Campus Safety: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 06 2011 3rd Year Female -- Class 2015    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=83465&uid=189'></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 Electrical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Please save yourself the trouble and either go directly to a UC or get good grades at a community college and then transfer to a better school. This department is the abyss from which you can't escape. EE at SJSU makes me hate school. Faculty Accessibility: B, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 20 2011 5th Year Male -- Class 2013    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=82069&uid=189'></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 Unknown  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment I'm a CS major and came to this school expecting a decent quality computer science education, what I found is a complete and total train wreck. The school is obsessed with Java (not teaching it though). The curriculum is cookie cutter lab/assignments. The labs are counter productive busy work, the assignments are poorly explained and the lectures are basically (90% of the time ESL) insturctor's mumbling over power points. This school is absolutely horrible. You are not allowed to withdrawal from a class three weeks into a semester. If you take a math or physics class, in addition to the the lectures and labs you HAVE to take a "workshop" which is basically a grad student babysitting and talking down to you in a room with 4 times more students than room on white boards assigning problems that CAN'T be HW problems. The advising is non-existent, you are forced to speak to the academic adviser 1 once per semester where you will get nothing but attitude and superfluous advice. Bottom line, the professors are checked out, the instruction is sub par (you have to teach yourself from the books) Junior Colleges are more professional than this. If you are planning on going to SJSU for CS, think again, do some research and pick another state school, or better yet a UC, from a JC you can get a transfer agreement. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ATTEND DIRECTLY AFTER HIGHSCHOOL! GO TO A JC OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE P*SSING MONEY DOWN THE TOILET. Horrible school (at least for computer science.) PS: If any instructor or advbisor tells you to take Science 90t or Science2 DO NOT TRUST THEM and DO NOT TAKE THOSE COURSES - they are a waste of time and will impact your other classes negatively, talk to some one who has actually taken one before signing up. Preparedness: -, Reputation: - Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 13 2011 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=80897&uid=189'></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  Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7 ... 19    Next

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