Copyright 2025 StudentsReview, Ecliptical Technologies, Inc. http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html Life at MEMPHIS - Comments en http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html slandered my good name and character as a usn media mate in front of memphis pd after complaining to the board to fix my financials bc devry can setup grants and va gi bill but these nincompoops cant ... Mon, 30 Apr 2018 01:47:47 GMT StudentsReview 1305-183140 1305-183140 1305 12 Computer Science Male Undergraduate Class 2000 Negative slandered my good name and character as a usn media mate in front of memphis pd after complaining to the board to fix my financials bc devry can setup grants and va gi bill but these nincompoops cant figure out how. Mon, 30 Apr 2018 01:47:47 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html The University of Memphis offers an average education at a good price that can definitely be used to get entry into the professional world. The careers department should be removed as they are utterly... Wed, 23 Mar 2016 05:07:18 GMT StudentsReview 1305-173083 1305-173083 1305 56 Geography and Geosciences Male Undergraduate Alumnus Class 2000 Neutral The University of Memphis offers an average education at a good price that can definitely be used to get entry into the professional world. The careers department should be removed as they are utterly worthless, and the alumni association is extremely weak compared to other schools when it comes to assisting in networking. I have now got a good career and will be going to an Ivy business school, but I feel the University of Memphis provided little to this success. What it did provide was a cheap bachelors that allowed me to take on a good amount of debt for Business school. Wed, 23 Mar 2016 05:07:18 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html I have lived in Memphis my whole life and I started going to college a private school somewhere else. For reasons I don't want to talk about, I couldn't afford to keep going so I transferred to Memphi... Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:58:09 GMT StudentsReview 1305-171153 1305-171153 1305 6 Biology Male Undergraduate Class 2016 3rd Year Neutral I have lived in Memphis my whole life and I started going to college a private school somewhere else. For reasons I don't want to talk about, I couldn't afford to keep going so I transferred to Memphis. I have to say that when I go for extra help, say in the Chemistry Learning Community, or professors during office hours, the University of Memphis is great. There are definitely interesting professors who care about you if you show you care. However, that said, I feel like my college life has been ruined going here and I write this because I'm hoping this doesn't scar me or others for life but it just makes me or you stronger later. The people who give you food (literally at every location) are cold, insincere, and make you feel like crap. The people who card you in at the fitness center are cold, insincere, and make you feel like crap. There are so, so, so many immature, obnoxious, and rude people that go here that you will go entire days with only interacting and or having to experience these types of people. I've met some really cool people here--really, really cool--ut they are diamonds in the rough or isolate themselves in fraternity circles (off campus). I went from optimistic to very dismal and depressed. Every morning I try to say it's going to be a good day, but by the time the day is over, so many people have stepped on me and treated me WRONG that I literally feel I'm in a living nightmare having to go here the next day. People horde around, stare, make excessive noise, and are incompetent of social decency. Nobody flushes toilets, there is never soap, every trash can has such a tight lid on it (circa 1990s) that you have to push it where the very trash touches (that's gross!), classrooms are locked so you have no quiet places to study, the dorms are terribly obnoxious to the point that you wonder if you're in college or with caffeinated, addied-out 14 year olds. Everyone tailgates, speeds, and you have to wait days to cross for traffic and the train. The University would like to say it hangs its hat on diversity...but the sad thing is that they just accept anybody and it honestly is a breeding ground for further division and segregation, far from a collective feeling where you can feel good for trying to be a better you or be good to other people. The library has ridiculously limiting hours. Every class I'm in people cheat, distract you from the professor, are immature (understatement), and are disrespectful (also understatement). I wish something could be done about this, but it probably won't so honestly, if you read this and you're choosing to come here, my advice is to live at home or off campus, or really go somewhere else. Then again, it could be a challenge that makes you stronger. But, it is a challenge that honestly should not be reality or a foundation of one's college experience. Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:58:09 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html Please avoid this school at all costs to save yourself time, money, and stress. The campus and surrounding city are very dangerous. I'm always getting texts about robberies. A few years ago, I rememb... Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:40:04 GMT StudentsReview 1305-169830 1305-169830 1305 7 Business - Management and Administration Male Undergraduate Class 2000 Negative Please avoid this school at all costs to save yourself time, money, and stress.
The campus and surrounding city are very dangerous. I'm always getting texts about robberies. A few years ago, I remember a female student being raped in front of her boyfriend and they shot him in broad daylight in a parking lot near Carpenter Complex. Campus safety is a joke, I never see patrols and the couple times I contacted police, they acted like I bothered them.

For a university that prides itself on being a commuter school, they treat commuters badly. There is literally not enough parking for everyone and they know this. Poor campus planning has resulted in less parking spaces than there are students. Most lots cost extra for a special permit. The few general lots are far from the center of campus. One is next to train tracks. Expect to be delayed by a train often. They thought it'd be a great idea to build a university next to a train. It's also extremely dangerous, especially as a lone female, to walk to your car alone after a night class. Like I said, no patrols. Parking services is very ticket happy to go out and ticket as much as they can. They can afford to hire ticketers but not invest in safety measures.

The dorms are very overpriced for what you get. If you enjoy having to compete for a washer and dryer, 1 stove per floor, and sharing a tiny room built of cinderblocks for the price of decent sized apartment (with its own bathroom, kitchen, etc.) + roommate off-campus, then go ahead. They're building new ones, but I guarantee they will be a premium price.

SGA is a joke. All they've done in the time I was there is raise student fees by a couple $100 each person to pay for a new rec center we didn't need. I won't even be around to use it! I've been paying for it for 2 or 3 semesters, and they haven't even begun to build it.

Food is a joke, especially if you live on campus. Everything closes very early. Fridays most places close at 6PM or 7PM. Saturdays/Sundays things don't open until 11PM or 12PM, so good luck getting breakfast. There is nothing to do Fri-Sun, it literally shuts down. The library opens for only a couple hours on the weekends. You will be bored if you live on campus, don't do it.

If you are academically a good student, don't expect to be treated well. You get 1 scholarship that has a lot of stipulations in order to keep it.

Career Services doesn't do much. Their extent of connecting you with jobs and networking opportunities is very limited. They have the internship fair, but all the employers do is tell you to keep an eye out online for postings. Not much networking to be had.

There's a reason the graduation rate is so low. You spend almost the first 2 years fulfilling your gen eds, that many people are here longer than 4 years. The college does not work with you when trying to graduate. Emails go ignored often, be prepared to send a lot.

The only redeeming quality is that if you're an athlete, the university will bend over backwards for you. There are ample sporting events to attend as a student at free or reduced cost, but all the other negatives really outweigh this. Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:40:04 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html Let's start with this : Graduation rate for the University of Memphis - 80%? --No, 68%?-- Nope, At least 50% right? as in at least half of the school graduates right? Not even close. The gradua... Fri, 19 Dec 2014 01:59:48 GMT StudentsReview 1305-155376 1305-155376 1305 6 Biology Male Undergraduate Class 2013 3rd Year Negative Let's start with this : Graduation rate for the University of Memphis -
80%? --No, 68%?-- Nope, At least 50% right? as in at least half of the school graduates right? Not even close.

The graduation rate for the University of Memphis is a mere SIXTEEN percent - 16%.

The Vast majority of U of M students very accurately portray the local inhabitants of the surrounding area of Memphis, TN. Students come for financial aid, get their check, and then drop out of all their classes - just for the money.

Students on campus are loud, obnoxious, and rude. If you go to U of M, you'll have to keep yourself calm at the beginning of the semesters. This is when the financial aid abusers are still enrolled (and must be for a certain amount of weeks) before the check comes. It never fails, they will drop out. But until that time, you have to endure their loud and horrible behavior.


I will say exactly what two of my previous fellow students, who were African-American, posted - The school is downright ghetto. Again, this is reflective of Memphis, TN. When WMCTV news, AKA Channel 5, is reporting 6 shootings in 1 week, and the school is made up of 90% locals well.....you do the math.


Aside from the horrendous student body, this school is an absolute JOKE. The same type of people who go here and abuse the financial aid (loud and ghetto) are the same people pushing paperwork in the joke known as the BURSAR's office. Guess I'd be rude too, minimum wage.
Every time I had to file a form, I'd get to the window and have to wait 5 minutes before they stopped talking to their coworkers about some stupid stories that just make black people look bad.

Advisors are a joke and have every idea about how classes they select will help you in your future, and no idea how to help you graduate.


I could write an entire book on the school, but let's just end with this:

BAD students, BAD faculty, BAD academics, BAD surrounding area (dangerous)
Avoid at all costs. (Unless you want to abuse financial aid and be ghetto while disrupting people. ) Fri, 19 Dec 2014 01:59:48 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/TN/UM_comments.html