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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant SIUE is a good school for the money. You should not expect high-end amenities and extracurricular. The School of Business is top rated and has exclusive accreditations and will cost you less than $4k a semester if you live off campus. I transferred here from a private university in the same area (McKendree) that was $10k a semester and did not have equal accreditation. So if you?re looking for value you can find it here. Dealing with the bureaucracy is challenging at best. All the departments have different standard procedures, so doing something as simple as becoming actively registered from a waitlist is determined by the whims of the head honchos. For example, College of Arts and Science advisors do not think it?s important to quickly respond to student inquiries into these simple topics. They are only versed in genetic processes and don?t take the time to become familiar with the nuances between programs. Mind you, advising is their only duty. In the School of Business, however, the waitlist procedures are clearly outlined on their website so a student doesn?t need to waste anyone?s time. This is important to keep in mind if you will have a double major or a minor. Also, the Bursar?s office has awarded my student loans to the wrong student and put a hold on my account because a transcript fee was charged to the wrong semester and therefore not paid. They have resolved those issues but not without many phone calls and trips to the office. The teachers are good in my opinion, but the support staff is lacking. And the bathrooms always reek like ammonia. Scholastic Success: A+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Aug 17 2011 2nd Year Female -- 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=80138&uid=439'></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 Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright In my particular area of concentration, Art and Design, I have had no problems with the professors and find the program to be challenging and rewarding. The problem with SIUE is when attempting to deal with anyone other than a professor. The administration at this school is simply awful. Trying to register for or change around classes is always made difficult, with people constantly bouncing you back and forth to different advisers or offices. There has not been a single semester I attended SIUE without something going wrong. One example is Health Services not entering my immunization information into the computer instead simply filing them in a drawer. Another time I was told I owed money but when going in to pay having a check cut because they were mistaken. In both these cases I was dropped from all of the classes I was registered for over these mistakes, causing me to lose my place and have to go through the registration process again. Most workers do not answer the phone when called and take days to return messages. Lines for parking passes, ID cards, etc. are always out the door and a long wait. Food in the cafeteria area is overpriced for the quality you receive. Another problem is that the campus is set on a very large piece of land, and all of the buldings are spread very far apart for no reason other than to occupy more space. This also allows their parking scam to be more effective, only putting parking for most commuter students on one side of campus meaning you have to walk all the way across to get to class. Your other options: buy a pass with a huge surcharge added that only moves you marginally closer, a metered spot or pay by the hour lot, or get a ticket which they increase in cost for every one you receive. In short the only redeeming element of SIUE is the actual professors in the Art and Design department, so I am unable to speak to other areas. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Aug 17 2011 5th 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=80136&uid=439'></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 Nursing  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant There's really no reason to complain about SIUE If you can't realize there's cool people and shitty people at every college, you're f***ed and you should leave. If you wear a Univ. of Illinois shirt every day and spend every moment fantasizing about transferring to U of I, you're f***ed and you should leave. If you commute two hours a day just for 6 credit hours, you're f***ed and you should leave. There's low school spirit but that's just the students' fault. If you can't differentiate between your own problems, those of the social environment, and those of the institution, then you're f**ked. Satisfaction after action is greatly possible with SIUE. People from our undergrad nursing program are being hired just DAYS after licensure, landing $40 an hour starting off, working the SAME RN jobs alongside people from Loyola and all these other "good" places. The cliche "it's what you make of it" is definitely true especially at SIUE. You'll be happy based on your own actions, doing what you want and finding your own group of friends at SIUE. You won't be happy from the contagious groupthink that plagues every university. The Army ROTC is a good group of people, hats off to them. The only beef I and other Chicagoans have with SIUE is the whole St. Louis thing: St. Louis is an unavoidable and omnipresent aspect of life at SIUE and it can be bad depending on who you are. If you have to do a volunteer project or museum visit for class, you WILL be associated with/go to St. Louis. You'll just have to face it. If you're a nursing student you WILL do your clinicals in St. Louis, have fun getting patients with their faces blown off (true). If you're a business student, have fun doing your internship at Purina. I say it can be bad depending on who you are, because if you're from Belleville/O'Fallon etc., St Louis is obviously a fine and normal place. But if you're from Chicago and "have seen the light" that Chicago gives, there's no contest admitting that St. Louis is hands-down just a horrible place. The Air Force ROTC isn't from SIUE. It's hosted at St. Louis Univ. and is a SLU program. Their building is a crackhouse. They're the only ROTC unit I know of that doesn't allow uniforms. Polo shirts and slacks are their only uniform. These kids spend 2 years in a MILITARY organization just wearing polo shirts, only to get f**ked up from some budget cut. The AFROTC kids are hilarious to see, sometimes they walk around during the winter without jackets just so they can poke out their little Air Force logo on their shirt. "Hey look at me I'm in Air Force ROTC!" sticking out their lit'l logo on their polo but the girls don't budge. Go Army. It's really just groupthink and St. Louis that cause most of SIUE's problems. At SIUE the dorms are new and the best I've seen, the food is great, and the facilities are top notch. If you're young there's a lot of fun to have in the dorms and in the various student organizations like InterVarsity and the Source. There's no reason to be unhappy other than trivial external things. I've had a lot of fun just chilling in the dorms with a small group of people, while other people just go into reclusion in their off-campus apartment and whack off to a U of I poster.You're either with SIUE or you're not. If you don't like SIUE but still take up class seats, hallway space, and breathing air, then that means you're a jackass and an idiot, and we won't miss you. Education Quality: A+, Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 10 2011 3rd 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=77995&uid=439'></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  8  9  10    Next

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