The University of South Florida

Date: Apr 13 2005
Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time)
USF is a mixed bag. This is to be expected of a growing school. The administration has charachteristically been bar-none the WORST. Any trip to fin-aid or the registrars office will prove this (ask me about the time they forgot to give my diploma.). I will admit I was a tenured student, going from the social to the hard sciences, so I will tell you that the faculty is quite good across the board but it doesn't take too much to figure out who is getting no funding (the art department has to fight to get broken handrails repaired!) versus who is when you see the pretty new chem building. So just be cognizant of the fact that USF is turning into a research university. Thats it. The big names that founded and worked with the art department have left or died off, and the anthro department has excellent faculty but limps along because they arent raking in biomed research bucks. So, conclusion is, if you are a chem or pre-med student it is a good buy, if you are an anthro student, it is still a recognized name but the facilities leave much to be desired, unless you are into decrepid modernist-jail archetecture.