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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Pharmacy  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright South Dakota State's College of Pharmacy is a diamond in the rough. Graduates have an incredibly high first pass rate on the national licensing examine. I now teach students from several universities and I've been impressed with the professionalism and preparedness of my SDSU students. You can't really beat the student to faculty ratio for a state school and they remain very competitive on their tuition. Starting Job: Staff Pharmacist, Preparedness: B, Reputation: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Jun 14 2008 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   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=49636&uid=1275'></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   Journalism  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I turned down athletic scholarships at other schools in bigger cities to come play at SDSU and I wouldn't change a thing. Even though there isn't a lot to do here, the people are what make the school fun and you won't find a better group of people anywhere. Innovation: A-, Campus Aesthetics: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 05 2006 4th Year Female -- Class 2005    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=20351&uid=1275'></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 Overall a positive experience. It can be easy, as in not challenging. Or it can be hard. Which path you choose depends on you. Many people complain that it's a hick school. That's not the case at all. Those who say that tend to be closeminded city-hicks -- sort of ironic I think. There's a definite community, a small town feel to everything. Chances are that any three or four people will have at least one person in common. There's a certain amount of anti-intellectualism but that's changing as the enrollment has gone above 10,000. The info given above is not correc by the way. Faculty are not like you'll find at most major Division I schools. They don't just sit in their offices and do a bunch of research all the time. They mostly teach. Decisions by the Board of Regents tend to make the lives of faculty miserable. The BoR is doing a good bit of work to make higher education in SD as awful as possible for both student and faculty. Despite this the faculty are approachable and generally dependable. Some are not but I don't fault the whole university for the failings of a few. Over the past year or two I've seen a really impressive change in the student body particularly freshman and sophmores. Since there's so many more students, there's a much better community. People are more interested in learning, and classes have gotten much more active. Unfortunately, there's still not many people from other states outside of Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota that come to SDSU. If I was from another state, I'd strongly consider going here because you will see things and experience things so different than from where you live. That's both good and bad by the way. But people work hard, and have strong values. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's true. It's a lot like the sterotypes. It's not a liberal school, but that doesn't mean people aren't welcome. You can make it exactly like you want. If you want to slack off, you can. But if you want to learn, you will. Nobody is there to hold hand, so what you make of the place is up to you. I think this is the hardest thing to get used to. Useful Schoolwork: A+, Individual Value: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 25 2004 5th Year Male -- Class 2002    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=8179&uid=1275'></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   Communications  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Don't go here for a liberal arts program if you can't get out the state go to USD if you want to get something out of your education. SDSU is a joke. The slogan should be "encouraging excellence by decreasing standards" don't expect to meet anyone who isn't a smalltown South Dakotan, I don't know why we are going Div I and wasting so much money when all the state schools in the surrounding (yes every damn state) have better academics, ranging from high level tier 4 schools like NDSU to Tier 1 publics like UofN-Lincoln, or some of the U of M and U of I schools, don't believe read the Collegian our weekly news rag, its so bad that the staff of the USD paper uses it as a standard of how not to write a newspaper or you can always to 90.7 for some 'real' college radio (if you are fucking stupid and think Nickelback is college radio). I was at NSU and Twin Cities (U of M) and I can say this place is the worst of the three, I went to NSU after the U of M-Twin Cities costs too much money and thought Brookings would be better because the campus is much larger, boy I was wrong. Admin has this attitude that this is some big important place, look at the USNWR ratings this is lower half of tier 4--if you scored above a 25 ACT and had good grades get out of South Dakota if you can. You can always come here to Brookings but don't expect to learn anything except how to drink an entire case of beer in a sitting. Perceived Campus Safety: A-, Scholastic Success: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 07 2004 3rd Year Female -- Class 2007    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=7860&uid=1275'></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:    Next

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