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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Mechanical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright I wanted to give my honest opinion of this university in order to truly help other students considering attending the University of Houston make an educated and well-informed decision. I would first like to discuss the student body. Given the extraordinarily low acceptance standards for this university (i.e. a GPA greater than 2.0 is the ONLY criteria for admission), one will find many unprepared and disinterested individuals perusing the campus. There are a few good students to be found but the overwhelming majority seem to view their college experience as a burden rather than a privilege. A desire to excel is an extreme rarity in this place. As stated above, the students seem much more interested in their social lives, dress attire, and drinking habits than achieving their educational goals. In fact, as evidence to this notion, just yesterday, while sitting in an Engineering Mathematics course, I overhead two students discussing their successful methods of cheating on past exams. As one student so proudly boasted, he entered all of the necessary test information into his programmable calculator and accessed it while sitting for the exam. Unfortunately, such behavior and discussions are commonplace at the University of Houston. A day does not go by that I do not overhear students discussing a recent fight in which they had engaged, their level of inebriation at a recent party, or their promiscuous, sexual activities, all supplemented with loud cursing and swearing. I have attended other universities and never before have I encountered the type of behavior that I see from these University of Houston students. It makes me sad to be associated with such an institution and I have already made my decision to leave after the conclusion of this semester (i.e. Spring 2010). Furthermore, security concerns are a very real issue at this university. Knowing that this university was located in the Third Ward of Houston, a notoriously dangerous area, I subscribed to the university's emergency alert system. Since arriving, I have received approximately two dozen alerts informing me of aggravated robberies (i.e. robberies involving weapons) in the campus parking lots. What's truly disturbing is that about half of these robberies have occurred in broad daylight at times like 3 P.M. A student is NEVER safe on the University of Houston campus and if you do decide to attend, please carry a cannister of mace with you at all times to prevent becoming a victim. In the end, I am sure that there are plenty of successful University of Houston alumni that have done quite well in this world. However, if you have the desire to be in an intellectually stimulating environment with like-minded students, the University of Houston is definitely not the place for you to attend. Surrounding City: A+, Perceived Campus Safety: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 02 2010 2nd Year Male -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=65571&uid=1367'></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   Music - Performance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright First of all the dorm was horrible. Bathrooms were broken down, holes in the wall and the noise was constant. Don't live in a dorm if you can help it. Cafeteria rips you off on your meals - they don't carry over from one week to another, so if you miss a couple of meals, they are gone. And, since the dorm and cafeteria was all the way across campus from the music school, I lost quite a few meals, not that they were worth eating anyway. I had one prof for 2 classes. Midway through the semester he informed me I was going to fail a music class. What an incentive to keep coming to class! No offer of help, etc., just informed me I would fail. Friendliness: B+, Faculty Accessibility: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 17 2010 1st Year Male -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=65111&uid=1367'></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   Anthropology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright The bureaucracy here is HORRIBLE. You'll spend days, sometimes weeks trying to contact the right person, and if you finally find them, you'll still be doing all the work. Most of the staff doesn't care what the students think. That also goes for the president of the campus. She wouldn't even see the anti-sweatshop club about UofH clothing. Despite heavy student protest, they continue to raise tuition each semester. I'm in-state and I still pay around $5000 each semester (seriously). Hate this school. Can't wait to graduate. Surrounding City: A+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 17 2010 4th 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='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=65110&uid=1367'></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   Perfomance Arts  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright If you are looking for the "college experience" do not come here. If you are looking to make do, just get by, get a degree, then get out then U of H will satisfy you probably. They do hand out plenty of degrees here it's just that maybe you'd rather enjoy your 4 years in the process. Campus life- a joke. Everyone commutes and the rest keep to themself. It's looked down upon to live on campus. I joined a sorority to survive but even that has not helped me totally because the day to day living on campus is lonely and you will eat alone a lot, most do. Dorm parties don't happen. If you are greek then they will want to go to bars. I personally just want to be a college kid, I'll go to bars when I'm a strung out divorcee. That's just me. I just want to be a kid. I want commraderie, a filled lunch table, community. If you're just fine with existing then this place is fine but if you want to Live then find somewhere else. I'm in the process currently. Education Quality: A+, Social Life: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 18 2010 1st Year Female -- Class 2013    Forward  Blog it! 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