The Wentworth Institute of Technology

I've been a student at Wentworth for 4 years. Everyone starts out liking the school, but eventually realize it's not good. The school tells incoming students a bunch of different programs and facilities that are on campus, but once you actually start, you don't use most of them and the ones you do use, you use sparingly. The software used is only available on campus and when asked for off campus licensing, IT will make you go through hoops to get it or just deny you altogether. The grading scale makes getting good grades harder and boosts the lower grades to make the institute look better. Most professors are either really good or absolutely awful, and the bad ones outnumber the good by a LOT. Looking at electrical engineers at other schools, I'd say most Wentworth kids are really underqualified.

4th Year Male -- Class 2019

Surrounding City: A-, Education Quality: F

My job is to research various aspects of every post-secondary education facility in the entire USA, and I also happen to be a student at WIT, so what I say may have some merit.

Campus Safety:
My Federal Work Study has been with the Campus Safety department ever since I first came here. Geographically, Wentworth is literally the only school buffering the other universities from the bad part of Boston. However, there have never been any robberies, muggings or shootings on campus, which is actually surprising. Let me put it into perspective. The Kansas City Art Institute has weekly muggings at gunpoint on their own campus, with dozens of cars stolen annually. One person even reported an automatic weapon being fired at the dorms - yet Kansas City is a far less criminally active city than Boston (which BTW happens to be the #1 human trafficking port in the USA). Wentworth does well to keep the campus safe.

The Faculty:
They are hit or miss. Most are good and I learn a lot and have fun, even in the most droll of subjects, but some are terrible. I had one of my professors laid off. This is a testament to the faculty however - they were willing to listen to myself and a handful of other students on our gripes and took them seriously. Once again, the even the faculty are a hit or miss. My academic advisor went on vacation and very nearly made me miss registration, and my financial advisor is a dick who hung up on me when I called him for advice.

The Courses:
They're fine. I'll be honest, I've always been overwhelmingly empirical. WIT is the only post-secondary I've attended so I can't compare it.

The Clubs:
I've always been involved in the clubs. There are more than a dozen of them but only like 3 or 4 are big. I had a lot of fun my freshman year with the WEB club when they took me paint balling for the first time. Despite being shot in the balls by a rogue paintball, I had a ton of fun. I'm a member of the phi Sigma Pi honors fraternity now, though I just joined as the semester ended so I didn't really get to test them out. Most activities on campus don't come from the dean or from the faculty but from the 100% student governed clubs, and they are not THAT big and powerful, so they can be few and far between.

Career:I opted into the optional co-op and enrolled in a co-op course to help me with my resume and what not, and to my amazement I wasn't able to find a summer co-op, despite applying to 30 places. I am hugely overqualified and I have been active in a lot of important organizations all my life, so I thought a co-op would be no problem. All the co-op advisers did is help me with my resume and give interview tips, but did nothing to help with the job search. There is a database of employers but almost none are for my major. I really don't know how this happened, since WIT is so proud of their 99% employment rate.

2nd Year Male -- Class 2016

Scholastic Success: A, Faculty Accessibility: D

The architecture department ranks in the bottom 5 of the 130 architecture programs in the US. (check for yourself) The program has only been accredited since the 1990s--before that it was a two-year drafting vocational degree. The facilities and the faculty are of low quality, you just can't do a quality degree at a school that is so weak overall. Many high schools have better teachers than here, and certainly my high school had much better labs and facilities. THis place exists, though, because kids don't want to go far from home. But in retrospect, I would not recommend it. Look at Northeastern, at UMass Amherst, at Mass College of art if you need to be local and do architecture--they are all much, much stronger schools. I can't recommend this place--please do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

4th Year Female -- Class 2013

Surrounding City: B, Friendliness: D