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 | Bright | | It is not as if you cannot come here and have a lukewarm experience. Some faculty are helpful. I pity a handful of them as much as I do many of my fellow students, frankly. Much of the problem revolves around the poor attitudes of the administration and support staff, in general. Again, in all fairness, there are a handful of nice, helpful individuals. The old proverb about one apple being able to spoil the whole bunch really rings true in this case. One must question why SOOOOOOOO many students would not choose to return to UIS.
Do yourself a really big favor. Do not give this university a second look. Find a university that is rated B+ or greater overall and do your homework from there. {Pun Intended} You only go to college once. Do not entangle yourself in the red tape so commonly associated with UIS! It is a trap. Consider yourself warned. My favorite view of this university is going to be when I am looking in my rear view mirror heading off to grad school! Did I mention that I was a transfer student that only took about half of my undergrad credits through UIS? Now imagine the angst of some poor sucker who did all four years in the armpit of Illinois. | Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Individual Value: F | | | |
| | Dec 08 2009 | 4th Year Male --
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| | | Do not go here. Almost all of your coursework pushes a communist, feminist, or otherwise extremely liberal view on you. Your professors don't care and are only biding their time until they can get to a better university. The campus is small and boring. There is absolutely nothing to do, but drink. A lot of schools claim to be in the middle of nowhere, but this campus is LITERALLY surrounded by cornfields. The people are for the most part ignorant and rejects from other schools. This is probably why the greatest majority of the student commute from home. Do not dare attend this school if you have views that differ from the liberal professors and staff (like believing in god). The student organizations are a joke. In closing, there is simply nothing good about this place. Don't let the "U of I" tag fool you..if you go here you will be begging to transfer within a few months. | Preparedness: -, Reputation: - | | | |
| | Feb 27 2011 | Male --
Class 2000 | | Blog it!Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account:
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| Bright | | If you want an education dont waste your time and money at this school. It is a beaurocratic cluster of careless administrators, most of whom have PHd's. Suppose it shouldn't be surprising though, the place is a quasi-state institution, and like all in Illinois the employees/participants are more concerned about securing their place in the system of patronage and favoratism then they are about making good on the purpose of the institution. The standards of performance and general student conduct are exceptionally low -- even accomodationist. I think this university panders to people who don't take education seriously, because there is money in open admissions. Really annoying if you work a full time job to know that, in addition to the tuition payments you are making, your taxes are going to some grant pool to offset the cost of people who generally bring down the quality of education to attend a class alongside you. The professors I've had have been generally unprepared and many knew less about their subject matter than I did. In addition, this school has trended toward forcing online classes for practically everything. The quality of education is not the same...I think in many ways it is an effort to broaden the admissions for the sake of getting more money to the school; of course it also means the instructors can be less accessible. My advice to anyone looking at UIS for a possible college choice is to look elsewhere. I attended SIUC about six years ago and graduated from there with a bachelors degree; at the time, as now, that school had a reputation as being a party school or whatever. Thing is, looking back, it was socially more robust and the instructors/level of education was much more professional. I know that UIS likes to tout its small class sizes, but I can tell you from personal experience that a student to faculty ratio of 14 to 1 means nothing in terms of quality education if 13 of those students are there to waste time by whining about deadlines, or course work, etc. and the one teacher is either willing to go along with them, or is too unprepared to do otherwise. Go to a different school. | Campus Aesthetics: B, Individual Value: F | | | |
| | Feb 27 2010 | 1st Year Male --
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