The New York Institute of Technology - Manhattan Campus

Date: Nov 17 2006
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
This is an excellent school for architecture. That is where my praise of the school ends. I enrolled in this school looking to become an architect and the courses were very demanding and I was learning techniques from day one. However I decided that architecture was not my thing, and I switched to a business finance curriculum by the end of my first semester. One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was staying in this school once switching majors.

I'm halfway through my junior year now, and every time I have to pick courses for the upcoming semester I get more frustrated with the school. The business department is severely understaffed. The majority of professors are only part-time and have day jobs. As a result the students find themselves having to take classes either from 8-11 at night or 8 in the morning on a Saturday. And of course all the core curriculum classes take place during normal hours so you find yourself with huge idle gaps in your schedule. Several courses necessary to specify your major are omitted altogether for entire semesters.

Of course this school is aware of their lack of staff, but instead of hiring more professors (the sensible thing to do), they spend money on setting up Distance Learning Classes. A D.L. classroom is sorta like a conference call, and you end up staring at a huge screen of a professor usually in Old Westbury (the bigger, better campus). Now this sounds like a legitimate solution on paper, but the learning experience is NOTHING like having a real professor in the room. NYIT is after nothing but the bottom line, by buying big flat screen T.V.'s and projectors, they find themselves with assets they can depreciate and/or sell instead of having to pay more professors.