The University of North Carolina - Charlotte

Date: Jan 15 2008
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
I studied at this h3llhole. I should've stayed where I was, but I wanted a masters degree, and I was just against taking out more loans. Most of the graduate faculty are absolutely WORTHLESS as advisors, and one must talk to other graduate students who manage to find things out in order to learn about opportunities such as further funding, projects, lectures—THE MA TEST, the things that one goes to graduate school for.

My assigned advisor? Forget it. Total flake. Program director? Forget it. MKoron. The best advice that I got was from a faculty lecturer who told me to apply to Columbia or Cornell.

My observation: grad students from out-of-state with BAs from higher-tier colleges get special treatment. The relationships among many of the GAs was awful: competitive in the nastiest ways imaginable; secretive about school and social gatherings if one is an outsider. (I attended most of the social gatherings that I knew of, but I realized early on that there were school/departmental events that I was never told about—things which my ADVISOR should have mentioned during my frequent office visits).

As long as one maintains low expectations of his fellow man, this school is great. You'll never be disappointed, and you'll never get a good teaching job either because UNCC has such a poor reputation WITHIN ITS OWN COMMUNITY.

No one except for one of my faculty "friends" ever knew how unhappy I was because I slogged along and acted as though I was perfectly oblivious to what was going on. I thought that things would improve, but nothing ever did improve.

I doubt that anyone at UNCC will EVER suspect who wrote this review because I was one of the bobble-headed grad student suck-ups who always had a smile on her face.

To paraphrase Bill Clinton: I s*cked, but I didn't swallow.