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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright If you are a fine arts student run far far away. There is a program called the mentor sequence which you must complete during your last two semesters at this school. You choose a professor to help you put a show together for review prior to your graduation. No one at the school has a clue as to how this program is run. You have to work very very hard to get any information on how to even sign up for this REQUIRED program. Then once you choose your professor they dont know what to do so they ask the Fine Arts department who continually gives out conflicting data. Finally, when it is time for your show, don't be surprised if someone else has taken over the gallery even though your dates are clearly posted on the wall, online and in school publications. I hate to be so negative but this is extremely frustrating. You work two semesters on a project and then you have to fight with everyone to do what you are required to do just to graduate. Also, if you are a photo major you have to take a lot of classes that have nothing to do with photography but are just filler like sculpture, 3d, video production, drawing II and so on. Meanwhile, just try and get the classes on your curriculum because they are never offered. What a nightmare. Run! Collaboration/Competitive: A, Scholastic Success: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 01 2008 2nd Year Female -- Class 2008    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=55299&uid=884'></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   English  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Kean has easily been the worst schooling experience I have had. My years at my community college were great, because the professors taught well, parking was reasonable, and there was no ridiculously strict rules that make no sense to have in place. Amongst other issues, but those come to mind immediately. I'll start with the classes. They feel unrewarding, and most of my professors are completely incapable of drawing the class's attention as a whole into the subject. I often find that most students end up doing their own thing in class. I've endured some ridiculous professors thus far. If you commute, that and parking are pretty much the only things you'd have to worry about. Homework feels bland, and I believe that most professors have a pretty bad habit of giving too much or too little. Out of the five professors I have this semester, I would say only two of them do a good enough job to keep class interest. Next up is dorming. They're pretty run down and dead most of the time. On top of the fact that 10% of Kean's entire student population uses the dorms, the general area is lackluster, and the aesthetics of the rooms leave something to be desired. The single upside to this is that you don't have to worry too much about other residents blasting their music. Adding to this list of faults is their whole meal plan deal. Ideally, you would think that for every meal you get at the cafeteria, it would deduct a meal from your overall amount, which you had paid for when selecting a meal plan. However, they cleverly left out the fact that you can only get free meals at certain times of the day. Mondays thru Thursdays, the free meals start at 8:30 PM. Very intelligent move Kean, I imagine the lines are full at nighttime. /sarcasm On Fridays, they start at 7:30 and end at 9, when they close. The convenient store, if you could use the word convenient, is a joke. Everything is way overpriced--I could buy goods at a 7-11 store for almost half of what I'd paid for in the University Center's Market Place. The strict rules doesn't apply to what you may think. Sure, you'll get kicked out if you're caught with alcoholic beverages--but the worst part of it all is how horrible their ethernet network is. On top of that, it's managed by novices who have no concept of how to handle anything. I'm an avid player of MMORPGs, and that is one of the things that Kean decided to block. I called the center to ask for help because I originally thought something was wrong with the network and upon explaining the situation, the guy says, "Oh, we have to block stuff like that. For security reasons." I asked, "Why? The server IP addresses change, but there's very little harm that could come from the servers." What was his response? "Oh, it's all for security reasons." Complete with an unsure, doubtful tone. Anybody with decent computer knowledge can negate the abysmal, neigh-non existing threats from MMOs. Even Youtube gets blocked on occasion. Funny how the Computer Service "specialists" said that they're trying to keep things secure, when they allow X-rated sites. I know because I've done trial-and-error. See the flaw there? All but one of those "specialists" have no idea what they're doing. A poorly organized staff just ruins it for everybody else. I feel bad for the single person who has a pretty decent array of computer knowledge. My final words of wisdom? Stay away from Kean. Campus Maintenance: C, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 20 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2010    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=55024&uid=884'></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 Bright Kean has to be the most unorganized school by far! Every year there’s always something wrong. For example: I had a loan sent to Kean from NJClass for $5,500. For both summer1 and summer2 classes. Kean decided to break up the amounts as summer1 receiving $1,000.00 and summer2 receiving $4,500.00. BUT!! summer1 cost me $2,200.00! Kean refused to make the correction! They blocked me from registering for summer2, because I never paid off the outstanding loan for summer1. Even though they had all my money.. they refused to recalculate the amounts, so that each summer session would receive the correct amount. So I had no another choice but to pay off the remaining balance for summer1, (I was graduating and I couldn’t deal with anymore issues). This is just a prime example of how Kean treats their students. Stay away from this place... which shouldn't be hard to do since you'll never find parking away! Education Quality: C-, Faculty Accessibility: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 16 2008 4th Year Female -- Class 2008    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=49782&uid=884'></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   Education  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Average I'm a Secondary Education major with my concentration in History. If anybody is an education major then Kean is the best place to be. Kean is produces more teachers than any college in NJ. Kean University is an alright school.....It's my first year and I can tell you that I have been parying my ass off almost every week. Every party is run by the sport teams or the Geeks at Kean. But you don't have to be in either to party, I'm not, just be friendly and have fun. Now parties are almost always Thursday nights, almost everybody that dorms are from neighboring towns so everybdy goes home on the weekends. The Campus does have its own train station so NYC is only a short ride away. The Student Organization does a decent job of keeping it's students entertained for example: Kat Williams came to perform last year, Homecoming weekend we had lloyd Banks perform, we recently had tickets on sale for linkin Park and Match Box 20 at Madison Square Garden for only $10. Kean is an alright school, 90% of the popluation commutes, and dorms are alright. Personally I get bored here I have met a lot of cool people but to me it doesn't feel like a college more like be high school. There are a lot of Middle Aged students here. The school spends so much money pn the physical apperance of the school but most professors are part time. And parking is horrible Education Quality: A+, Scholastic Success: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 17 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! 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