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| | My experience with the field of International Education Policy and Management program at Vanderbilt University was very miserable. There are two people running the program, Prof. Brian Heuser and Prof. Steve Heyneman. Both act, as if they have better things to do rather than teach students and help them with different issues. It's impossible to get on their calendars. Their research and other consulting projects are far more important than students. No guidance, no instruction, no career support!!!!! Many students come to the program because of the experience and connections of Prof. Henyeman (22 years at World Bank) however, having this high-profile person in the program is only a decoration. He is too busy going on the trips on his other consulting projects, rather than helping students. The program has a large percent of foreign students (50%) and such attitude is unacceptable. I don't know any student in our cohort who Prof. Heyneman has helped through his network. No career support whatsoever. When you come to the program, you are told "My friendships are getting old, you have to find internships and jobs yourself, I will not help you". I come from a third world country but I felt that I received more attention from my professors, and I was more challenged intellectually at my school at home than in this program at Vanderbilt. | | Apr 28 2011 | Other | | |
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| | Overall it is a good school. Good for undergraduate study. Graduate school is also very good. Research is solid. However, for the graduate study, you have to carefully choose a good adviser. Some professors mislead graduate students to superficial things and guide the students in wrong direction. Students are hard working and capable but still hard to find job after graduation. It is because personality fostered does not fit the society. | | Mar 15 2009 | Biology | | |
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| | One day I will learn my lesson that labels are reserved for clothing and not education. The ranking of Vanderbilt University and the actual quality of education have NOTHING to do with one another. Though the chancellor is attempting to "diversify" the narrow-minded, conservative, southern student body by importing northeast Jews; the nearly all blond, Louis Vuitton toting crowd stultifies in it's lack of diversity and frightens in it's xenophobia. The graduate program in Nursing is merely about proving you can jump a multitude of hoops and has nothing to do with education. It is highly disorganized and is suffering from a major lack in communication between faculty, administration and students. When I queried a faculty member about the fact that every month, 6 exams and 5 papers were scheduled within the same week, he replied; "Well you don't expect us to sit around a table and ask each other when we are testing!" The attitude for success as explained to me by my faculty advisor is "Kiss up and shut up!" Vanderbilt likes to delude it's students into believing they are attending the Harvard of the South; but this is akin to confusing Paris, Texas with the city of lights. | | Jan 03 2006 | Nursing | | |
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