Butler University

Date: Jun 15 2004
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
Butler's scholastic programs are excellent. That cannot be denied, and I was very satisifed with most of my professors. In my year there I only found one that I thought wasn't helpful, but that was in a core class that didn't turn out to be difficult or useful at all. Overall, I thought Butler was a very intelligent school. However, that is it's only advantage.

Butler is drained on a social level. The large frat prescence and EXTREME lack of diversity means that most the students are white ghetto-wannabes with uncreative tastes and dull personalities. The halls of the dorms will be ruled by the latest hits on TRL and friday night fun limited to drinking; finding anyone who is original is difficult, espically since those who are will quickly transfer because of the school's stagnant social climate.

In addition, Butler seems very greedy and incresingly unhelpful on a administration level. Over-population in dorms is now a way of life at Butler, despite the fact steps could have been taken to solve it in advance. Stupid year-ending housekeeping charges are common (15 dollars just for screwing a hutch back on a desk…christ) and so are game rooms full of broken pool tables and dirty, half-functioning TVs. One particular example of Butler's greed is the meal plan - you must have one as a freshman, and it also has a very odd "feature"; dinner in the cafeteria is listed at 6.25, but if you transfer your meal-plan to c-club fastfood downstairs you only get 4 dollars for dinner. A burger, by the way, costs at least 3 bucks. A rip off? You bet. And it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't cost over 30,000 a year to attend.

I would not recommend Butler to anyone who is of a more creative (or liberal) mindset. The acedemia is good, and the professors the school's greatest asset, but the dull social scene and money-grubbing administration ruins it.