(UMass-Amherst) As a person coming from an urban setting, Amherst

How this student rated the school

Research Quality	B	Research Availability	D
Research Funding	F	Graduate Politics	A
Errand Runners	F	Degree Completion	B
Alternative pay [ta/gsi]	A	Sufficient Pay	F
Competitiveness	F	Education Quality	F
Faculty Accessibility	C	Useful Research	B
Extracurriculars	C	Success-Understanding	D+
Surrounding City	F	Social Life/Environment	F
"Individual" treatment	B	Friendliness	C
Safety	A+	Campus Beauty	C-
Campus Maintenance	D-	University Resource/spending	C-

Describes the student body as: Friendly, Arrogant Describes the faculty as: Friendly, Arrogant, Condescending

Male

Lowest Rating Research Funding	F

Highest Rating Safety	A+

He cares more about Surrounding City than the average student.

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Unknown (This Major's Salary over time)
As a person coming from an urban setting, Amherst is a very small town and it gets boring after a semester. The surrounding towns are not much better. My dept. is not competitive enough. It's very euro and U.S. centric. There needs to be a renewal of faculty soon. Most of the faculty who founded the dept. are still there, and most are not doing cutting-edge work. If you work with dominant languages, for instance, French or German, and other European languages, then this might be a place for you. If you are aiming to move beyond the old CompLit model, as Spivak has suggested, this is definitely not the place to do graduate studies. Teaching opportunities are good, plenty of flexibility with coursework, though you really have to look around for interesting courses, often times, looking outside of the dept.

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