The University of California - Santa Barbara
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Research Quality | C | Research Availability | B+ |
Research Funding | F | Graduate Politics | D |
Errand Runners | B+ | Degree Completion | B |
Alternative pay [ta/gsi] | B- | Sufficient Pay | D |
Competitiveness | F | Education Quality | C |
Faculty Accessibility | A- | Useful Research | C+ |
Extracurriculars | B | Success-Understanding | A- |
Surrounding City | A- | Social Life/Environment | A |
"Individual" treatment | C | Friendliness | A |
Safety | - | Campus Beauty | A |
Campus Maintenance | B+ | University Resource/spending | B- |
Describes the student body as: FriendlyDescribes the faculty as: Friendly |
Lowest Rating Research Funding | F |
Highest Rating Social Life/Environment | A |
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
I would suggest anyone looking into graduate schools to look beyond the MCDB program at UCSB. People are friendly and the atmosphere is easy going, but those are about the only "pros." The "cons" are much more numerous. Very little funding plagues the research. Politics between faculty is disappointing especially when considering what could be accomplished if the facutly with similiar reasearch interests worked together. The lax attitude about research makes you wonder how much people at UCSB care about producing real quality science. The department does not care at all about the well being of the students or their education. They only want to APPEAR like they are a caring, productive school. I have spent time at other universities, and this one is inferior - simply put. If you want a graduate school where you do more TAing than research, and have to continually deal with lazy faculty, then come here. If you want to have an active role in meaningful reasearch, and want training to become a competitive scientist in your field of interest, then go somewhere, anywhere else.