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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Mechanical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright I have learnt great deal in this institution. Every semester makes me like my major even more. Education Quality: A+, Campus Aesthetics: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 06 2008 3rd Year Male -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=46765&uid=284'></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   Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright How can anyone write anything good about this school? I thought my one year there was never going to end! FIU really seems to cater to the minority students which makes up the majority of the student body. Not trying to make race an issue but if you're white you kind of feel left out and on the outside. I was in the business program and talk about a complete joke. I had one professor who could barely speak English and his exams were on crap we never even went over. The campus is in a rough area of Miami and can leave you feeling unsafe. Fellow classmates seem generally uninterested in learning anything and can be seen by the amount of text messaging in classes with professors not even caring. The extent of campus social life is hanging out watching a football team that's won a total of 1 game in the past two years! Besides only like 500 people go to the game with about 380 of them being fans and students from the visiting school. Parking is horrible along with most of the student services staff. I soon realized FIU was not my scene at all and transfered to UCF. Honestly, unless you're on a free ride and have a ton of friends already in the area stay away from FIU there's nothing there. If you are a FL resident or an out of stater who wishes to attend school in Florida I would suggest looking at UF, FSU, UCF,or FAU. I only wish i knew so i didn't waste a year of college. Campus Aesthetics: B+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 29 2008 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='sr_comment.js?sckey=45632&uid=284'></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   Accounting  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant So far, my experience at FIU has been a horrible one. For one, there is nowhere to park once you get to the campus, and this has been the case for the entire 2 years that I've been attending here and keeps getting worse every semester. The only solution FIU has come up with to resolve this problem is to take away student parking spots and turn them into faculty parking. And instead of improving conditions here by building new parking garages, the university decided to build a new stadium for their football team, which can't even play, not to mention the fact that there's nothing wrong with the current stadium, and it never even gets full anyway. In regards to the faculty in the accounting department, they are the rudest people you will ever meet in your life. They could care less about you, and they consider you as nothing more than a number. You have to pass an entrance exam just to get into the school of accounting, and then after that, they make the exams so hard, that 85% of the people that take intermediate accounting fail the course. I think that it is unacceptable to let that amount of people fail a course and offer no curve whatsoever in response to the insanely high failure rate. This says a lot about the quality of the professors, and how the department doesn’t care at all about the students that take their courses. In response to the courses offered in the business school, there are hardly any regular classes. Instead, the business school makes most of their courses fully online or hybrid. In either case, you'll end up paying $300 more just to take one of these courses because the business school purposely schedules to have these types of courses in place of regular classes. I've attended other colleges in the past, and I've never seen $300 fee for taking an online course. I took online courses at past universities, and actually learned a lot through them. Here, instead, you’ll just pay an extra $300 on top of the $300 cost of taking a regular class, and you'll end up teaching yourself everything. You won’t be able to interact with the instructor, because all they do is grade your coursework and submit your grade to you about 2 weeks after you complete an assignment. FIU prides themselves in their business school, but in reality their business school sucks!!! Half of there professors don't know how to teach, and on top of that, they are making tons of money by ripping people off through their online fees. If you and 250 other students in a 300 person course fail it, they wont care, wont curve, wont do anything pretty much. They just don't care about you or your education. The only thing FIU cares about is ripping you off, taking your money, and having a professor that gives you a letter grade, but doesn't have to teach you anything in the process. Campus Maintenance: B, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 20 2007 3rd Year Male -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=42930&uid=284'></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   Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright FIU is well kept campus, but the staff and people are terrible. Most of the teachers (especially math teachers) do not speak english well at all. The students are unfriendly and self absorbed. the staff is just as bad. The housing office and finacial Aid office is the worst. Parking is HORRIBLE even if you do live on campus. The only good thing about living on campus would be the very nice dorms. And the counselors will tell you anything that will hinder you from graduating because they give you the wrong information about what classes you need to take. The campus is not safe at all. Recently an FIU officer got arrested for raping a student on campus. There was also a recent hate crime on campus. Fights are normal at FIU as well. Campus Maintenance: A, Faculty Accessibility: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 15 2007 3rd Year Female -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! 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