The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Date: Sep 11 2004
Major: History/Histories (art history/etc.) (This Major's Salary over time)
UNC is okay for a large public university, I suppose. But I cannot recommend it to anyone. Undergraduates simply do not get enough personal attention: classes are way too huge, teaching assistants do way too much teaching, and too many classes just reflect the professors' arcane and sometimes bizarre research interests. The school's main priorities are producing PhDs and cranking out books and journal articles. Undergraduate education is a very distant third—when it's even considered at all. Also, the school seems to be determined to become the Berkeley of the East, and ideas which do not toe the leftist line are stifled. Professors just assume that everyone shares their radical worldview. If you want a good graduate education, UNC may well be the place to go. But going here as an undergrad is simply a bad idea—don't buy all the hype about this place! Go to a small school that focuses on undergraduates, and actually learn something!