Valdosta State University

If you can afford a better university, go! Professors are frequently unfamiliar with their own course material across the board. I have had chem professors start examples on the board, work them half way through and give up, telling the students that if they want to prepare for the test they can look up how to work it out online. Foreign language departments are actively pushing for total online immersion with no face-to-face interaction. This makes SPEAKING a foreign language very difficult with 0 contact hours. If you do register for classes, most teachers are not fully fluent, disorganized, and of little help if asked language-specific questions about grammar and syntax or word choice. Rosetta Stone is more effective at conveying the message as is the free software, Duolingo. Also, the money that you save in tuition will be spent on parking tickets. The department does not label its parking lots and if you spend the time to learn the correct designations, and park in them depending on your status as a resident or commuter, you will still receive tickets days before registration for the next semester's classes. This is done because outstanding tickets are active holds on student registration. Until you pay tickets, you cannot register for classes or graduate. The appeals process takes over a week so you have a choice as a VSU student, wait for the appeal on your ticket, which was given to you for parking validly with a decal, and lose seats in classes that you need for graduation or pay the $15-$60 that they extort you for. Note, there are no refunds after you pay the ticket and you will receive more than one ticket an hour. 5 tickets=towing your vehicle with the $50 decal you paid for to the vehicle impound. You CANNOT appeal after you have paid the ticket in order to register. They have you right where they want you and I have paid just under $1000 in said tickets before graduation. You get what you pay for right?

3rd Year Male -- Class 2018

Campus Aesthetics: A+, Faculty Accessibility: F

This university looks pretty when you visit however, incoming freshman and transfer students, beware that once you live here, it is not pretty, actually more dreadful and stressful. The freshman meal plan is absolute crap, unless you like having just about the same choices everyday like pizza and pasta, which will have you on the fast track to the freshman fifteen (just saying, construction during classes makes it hard to hear your professor and learn the material.The professors I find are half and half, some are really good and the others are just crap. Also keep in mind, they get paid whether you pass or not. If you're taking a large number of credit hours, it will be very hard to get a good gpa even if you work your butt off everyday and every night. The city itself isn't really convenient.. the mall is dinky and really it looks like there's a lot of things but its mainly restaurants... All of the people I knew from back home already transferred before the second semester started. Oh and the dorms are crap too. Very expensive for a tiny space with community bathrooms (that are so disgusting even the janitors refuse to clean it sometimes and will charge fines to have it cleaned). The halls are always noisy, so don't plan on getting a good nights sleep. Also as far as roommates go, make sure you know your roommate well before you pick them (if you get that opportunity) because you may think they are a nice person but, the saying "you don't really know a person until you live with them" is sooooooo true! I feel like not living on campus would have made this year 20x better but unfortunately, you have to live on campus as a freshman who does not maintain a permanent residence less than 50 mi away. I do not recommend this university to anyone really.

1st Year Female -- Class 2015

Faculty Accessibility: A, Education Quality: F