Millikin University

Date: Apr 21 2008
Major: Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc (This Major's Salary over time)
I would not choose Millikin University if I had to do it all over again. I am graduating and do not feel that this University has prepared me for the real world. They tell you (when you come for your tour) that they will help you find internships and help you find jobs when you graduate. The career center tells you to go to your depatment for job serches and your depatment tells you that is not what they are here for. So basically you are on your own. Schools like Weselyn have intern summer programs and job placement programs. Millikin does not have this program.

Millikin in in the worst neigborhood ever. Students have been held up at gunpoint right in their dorm rooms. The dorms have securitied doors but anyone can get in by standing outside the door and waiting for someone to come out. Then they knock on your dorm door (there are no peek holes on said doors) and when you open them you get robbed!!! Campus security will take your statement but that is it. Make sure you have renters insurance if you want to recover anything. Moving into the Woods was the safest move for me. It is a gated apartment and no access in unless you live here or are here with someone. The 24 hour security for the apartment complex is worth it.

The staff here sucks, There have been new teachers in my department every year. No one sticks around for the long haul. This tells me that even the teachers do not like it here or they would stay longer then a year.

If you are thinking about getting a job while in school, think twice the school does not look kindly upon students who work, their job might get in the way of meetings. I have to work to go to school, I only have a partial scholarship (wich is very helpful) but I have to work andthey make it wound like a sin around here to work. I always work around the posted schedule, but it changes so often that I either miss work or miss part of a meeting.

I wished I had chosen one of the other colleges that I had looked at, they offer more to the students as far as education and help with interships and jobs after graduation.