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The University of Advancing Technology

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityF Faculty AccessibilityA+
Useful SchoolworkF Excess CompetitionA
Academic SuccessF Creativity/ InnovationC+
Individual ValueB University Resource UseF
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyC- FriendlinessB+
Campus MaintenanceA Social LifeF
Surrounding CityC+ Extra CurricularsD
SafetyF
Describes the student body as:
Friendly, Afraid, Approachable

Describes the faculty as:
Friendly, Helpful

Male
Quite Bright
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A+
He cares more about Safety than the average student.
Date: Mar 27 2008
Major: Computer Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
The faculty here is, for the most part, actually pretty good. There are a few that have little to know industry experience, but they're all in the Game Design program, and they're all teaching pointless classes. Like "Level Design" and "History of Gaming". The level design teacher now is a former UAT graduate who I actually went to school with. They worked for a company, doing writing for less than a year and then got a job teaching.

For anything related to the Network Security program the faculty is helpful, knowledgeable, and understanding. While a lot of them have strict policies they will cut you a break here and there if you just talk to them. There are scheduled times where they will provide tutoring, and a lot of them will even stay after class or let you call them up if you're having trouble. This kind of personal attention is what really shines about this University, and the reason I stayed so long, despite all the ridiculous things going on and the unnecessarily high tuition. They go out of their way to make sure you understand what's going on and that you're getting what you need. Although very few people actually take advantage of this.

This might be because the schoolwork here isn't really work at all, for the most part. Most of the things I've done were just busy work where you'd read a chapter in the book and then post on what's basically a forum about it, and receive a grade for your participation. This is considered work, and although I complain about it at every possible opportunity, in every student interview and survey they've ever done, every single teacher here does this. Some of them build entire classes around it.

There are very few written assignments, final essays, final projects, or non-multiple choice tests. Even the final exams in almost all of my classes, in 3 years, have been multiple choice. The worst part is that the questions are always referring to something in the book for that class. Never anything that was discussed or that you might have actually learned. There are teachers here who will take questions directly from the book, questions to which there are answers, in the book, and make them into exams. The worst part of all this is that since everything we do here is online, all of these tests have an "open book" policy. You really need to be stuck on stupid or just never turn anything in to fail a class.

They will help you with jobs and internships here as well. Companies come to campus every once in a while and will do interviews on the spot. There are always job listings on our intranet as well. They're never for the job people are looking for, or going to school for really, they're all entry-level work, but you've got to start somewhere and it's better than nothing.

The policies on the other hand are pretty out-of-whack. They let you fill out these student surveys at the end of every semester to evaluate classes and faculty. Those classes and teachers who get consistent negative reviews are never actually changed. It's probably the worst for the game design majors here again since those teachers are mostly teaching those 100 level courses. In the multimedia department, these classes are supposed to provide you with your core skills, so many of my friends are lagging behind and don't feel as though they've learned much of anything since they're always looking off of a tutorial or out of a book to finish their assignments.

They buy new computers every holiday season, there's really no good reason for this, there's nothing that you can or will run on these that would required them to, for instance, have an 8800, a dual-core processor, and 2 gigs of RAM. Even 3D Max and Maya will run very well on 3-4 year old computers, but these will get replaced in a year, I suppose so people can run Firefox and Microsoft Word on them even faster.

They built dorms just last year, they took up most of our parking lot to do it, and now require that anyone not living in the dorms park behind a store down the street. For a while there was no security over there. There still isn't really. They hire students to do the job because the security company they're hired for the campus can't, or won't, cross the street. So, our security is a skinny guy in a lawn chair, who maybe has some sunglasses for protection. To be fair, although the guys on campus won't leave the campus, they do come outside between periods now and watch the sidewalk to, I assume, make sure nobody is getting mugged on the way there.

I was a Software Engineering and Network Security major. It's very much a know it or don't kind of place. While there is help available, everyone that comes here, the ones that won't quit, are usually just here for a piece of paper and have actually been programming, or meddling in security, or setting up networks in their spare time for years. This is reflected in these seemingly backwards policies. You will learn far more by joining clubs and listening to other students than you will actually attending classes. If you're not one of these people I would very strongly suggest that you look for another school. If you're going for Multimedia or Game Design, find another school, you'll waste a lot of time and money here and maybe end up in QA, something you don't need any kind of education for, gives you no job security, and is a full-time job that pays $8 an hour. A degree from this school is worthless, any degree. Please know that if attend this school no other university will accept your credits should you decide to transfer.

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