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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Chemistry  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I transferred in to this school and was expecting a challenge, but I got more than that! This school is tough. I was used to getting straight A's / A+'s at my other college and it's not the case here. You actually have to study and you basically never have free time. That's not to say you can't find time to hang out with friends or go skiing, you just have to balance your schedule. You definitely can't slack off here. A lot of kids complain about there being nothing to do but I don't think that's true at all. You just have to get out there and find kids who like doing stuff, not just sit in their room and study or play video games. Denver is 10 minutes away and Golden and the surrounding mountains offer endless outdoor activities. One thing that everyone will notice when they come here is the lack of girls. The ratio is evening out, but it is noticeable. I would never choose a different school than the School of Mines. I love it here, I'm actually being challenged and going to this school basically guarantees you a job or placement in graduate school. Education Quality: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 03 2010 1st Year Male -- Class 2012    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=65601&uid=225'></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   Economics  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I'll start off with the following: Mines gives you a great education. It is the best engineering school in Colorado, hands down. The undergrad program had the highest average starting salary of any public university in the country last year. My story is pretty simple. I came in as a petroleum eng major, but I love Colorado and there aren't a lot of petro jobs here. Switched to Chem engg, but found the same theme. Now I'm in Economics and the coursework isn't putting me to sleep, and I will likely find a job here. As for my opinion, I think that the place itself is a large pain. Check course bulletins to see the classes you'll be taking - many are highly theoretical and offer no real world application to your (or any) major. There seems to be a large amount of apathy among some professors, but this is certainly not the norm. The administrative offices (particularly the registrar) tend to be very difficult to deal with. Your tuition pays their salaries so I wish they'd be a bit more cooperative. Intersting notes: Mines is very resilient to giving credit for the same classes taken at another college Mines has NO online classes. If you were thinking your schedule could be flexible, it will not. Most of your core classes will have tests at night. It's called a common exam schedule and it is posted on their website. Education Quality: A, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 07 2010 2nd Year Male -- Class 2012    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=64787&uid=225'></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   Chemical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Colorado School of Mines awarded me a great scholarship, which was the reason I enrolled. However, as the fall term approached, the school began to decrease the amount of money that I was originally offered in the way of grants to compensate for the scholarship. In his convocation, the President of the school said that we'd be taught by professors with terminal degrees whose purpose was to help us succeed. Nothing could be further from the truth. My Calculus III instructor only had a Master's degree - from Mines. Not only that, a friend of mine, who is dyslexic, asked for class notes (which she was entitled to because of her learning disability). The instructor not only didn't have notes but he also seemed indignant that she would ask, as if she was trying to cheat. He taught 3-D calculus without props. He would wave his arms and tell us to "imagine an object..." My chemistry lab instructor barely spoke English. In the lecture, the instructor sometimes used a grad student from China who told us the wrong information in a language we couldn't understand. One of my instructors would come to class, turn off the lights, turn on her power point presentation, and that was that. It was the only class that I ever fell asleep in. The course was one that was considered too easy the year before so this year, she decided to make it more difficult by including ancillary information from sidebars on her power point slides in the tests. Name twelve amino acids. That kind of question. I expected the courses to be challenging, but their difficulty was more a result of poor teaching then it was because of the material. I mean, really, the same material is taught in first semester chemistry throughout the country, how can it be any more difficult at Mines than, say, at the University of Colorado where they have Nobel Prize scientists teaching undergraduate classes? Perhaps Mines is a good place to go for graduate school, but the professors are not very good undergraduate teachers. The campus exudes stress. I made many friends at Mines, and everyone of them is either stressed to the max or has simply given up and accepts their "C". The only real distinctive engineering here is Petroleum Engineering. Otherwise, I suggest going somewhere else. Mines (look it up) isn't really a top-tier engineering school. They made the classes hard, in my opinion, because the need to maintain their reputation as a hard school. Why put up with 4 years of stress to come out with a bad g.p.a. and a degree you could have received from one of the better engineering schools in Colorado? If I were you, I'd consider driving a few more miles north and enrolling in CU or CSU. University Resource Use: B, Faculty Accessibility: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 05 2010 1st 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=64704&uid=225'></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   Engineering Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright This school provided strong engineering foundation both academically and practically. Workplace found CSM graduates to be very appealing due to their technical capability and work ethic. Workload in school was heavy, but it paid off. Starting Job: Reservoir Engineer, Preparedness: A, Reputation: A+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Oct 21 2009 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! 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