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For me this university represents what I was looking for: new, small in numbers, near a metropolitan city and incredibly resourceful. Dec 18 2007 Political Science

I'm in the engineering school, the part of the university others departments complain about getting all the glory and attention. Not just that, I'm in a "hot" research area that gets a lot of hype in the press. Let me tell you, it's all hype. Especially here. If you're serious about graduate school and your career, avoid this place. Fortunately, I decided that this grad school is totally irrelevant to my life goals, so it doesn't bother me too much that the research here is wasting people's lives and money. Ironically, the my poor graduate program accelerated my personal development. Maybe because for the lack of purpose, and with no illusion about it, I was forced to re-examine my life. And so I ended up discovering my real passion, what I'm really good at, what I really want to do for a career! Not bad to get my midlife crisis overwith this early. So I'm only staying as long as it takes me to figure out the details of what I'm doing next. But it's no walk in the park. I work on research every day like a full time job. I continue here because they pay me and I have to live with the mistakes I made. Dec 14 2006 Electrical Engineering

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO Do not go here. Please, do not go here. This has got to be the absolute worst University in the country. Nobody knows what the hell they are talking about at this University. The instructors are so unhelful and selfabsorbed. I would HIGHLY SUGGEST that if you if you are looking at UT-Dallas, then you should take a look just down the road a bit and go to the University of North Texas. This school is 1000% more efficient and equipped to give you a suitable education. May 13 2005 Political Science

The university is essentially a commuter school, so people come to study and leave right after their class. No school spirit. While the faculty are great, the school leaves a lot to be desired. Physical facilities are bad, it is like a building in the middle of the desert. No cool shade to hang out. The student center is a big joke. Jan 15 2005 Business - Management and Administration

I came to this university because at the time I was looking, it was the only university in the state that offered a Masters of Science not a Masters of Arts in my major. Boy was coming here a mistake. What you get stuck with is a department filled with professors who have been professors since the day the graduated with their doctorate. What does this mean for you? It means you have teachers who have NO real world experience. They have for their entire career lived in that false reality that is college professor. If they need data or research information, it is given to them, if they need help, it is given to them. They have never had to do much for themselves and have a very skewed vision of what happens in the "real world" is. So, if you already have a job and are coming back to this university for a masters you're in for a shock. You'll be told things you do in your job on a daily basis are "not things you'll ever encounter in the real" world and other total falsitites. I've had so much work refused and ideas shot down because I was told they weren't "real" and that I would never need/use/do that. I use these things every day. I've also found many of the professors to be very "me" oriented, especially in the Geosciences department. I think many of the professors would much rather just be doing research and not teaching and it shows. Many teachers have students (and usually unqualified students, one class I was in had the TA taking the class at the same time she was the TA for it?!? Needless to say she was pretty much worthless) teaching labs and sometimes even classes and are often very unfriendly when approached outside of class. On the whole, I've spent a LOT of money at this university and have gotten very little in return. I'd say only about 25-30% of what I've learned here is usefull for my career. I should have worried less about the degree and more about the actual quality of the university when I was deciding where to get my masters. Mar 29 2004 Geography and Geosciences

 

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