The University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Public Policy (This Major's Salary over time)
The University of Pittsburgh is a bureaucratic nightmare. It's 1000 times worse than a visit to the DMV, but, unlike the DMV, your visit will last years instead of hours. Each department has a completely different set of policies and paperwork. No departments talk to each other. The staff, consistently, throughout the entire university is unprofessional and uninterested in doing their jobs. Instead of the financial aid department picking up the phone to talk with the billing department to make procedure that aligns, staff use students as messengers, sending you back and forth from one building to another with "they sent me here and said this should be your job" messages. You will literally spend the first 2 weeks every semester attempting to get registered, to get your financial aid, etc. Just like a full-time job. Staff consistently state that "it's not their job" to meet with students, to fix problems that are atypical, or to even pick up a phone to call a different department. It takes 5 or 6 forms PLUS a variety of signatures just to sign up for a single class. The financial aid department is unconcerned with legality of their practices, and speaking with a manager is impossible. The entire university runs on a "if we ignore it, the problem will go away" attitude. "And, anyway, if it doesn't, it's no concern to me… it must be someone else's job to fix it." The online systems are horrendous.

I love Pittsburgh, but you will undoubtedly feel like your head is going to explode over and over if you go to U Pitt.