The State University of New York Binghamton

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
I am not currently student but know the school well and have taken courses and worked there. I think it is a horrible place but some people like it. Many of the undergraduate courses are huge and students sit in large lecture halls using their PSPs and texting. Faculty are discouraged from spending effort on courses and those seen as less productive are saddled with more courses. So faculty are punished for not publishing enough by teaching. Tells you what administrtors think of teaching and tells you how important they see the undergraduate education. If you like the sky to be gray most days with rain, snow and sleet most of the time and snow in May, you may like it here. The campus has a utilitarian look to it. Looks like a giant factory.Big factory clock in the center. Ugly modern brick buildings that are nothing like the old brick buildings you see in schools with excellent reputations. This is just my opinion. I think it would be hard to find an uglier campus in an uglier more economically depressed community but some people do not care about those things. The tuition is cheap and the school is cheap. You will not confuse an education here with an education at a private school or at a top notch public school. In my opinion it is neither. The adminstration screams poverty when the economy is up and when it is down and there has not been a year when there have not been threats of cutbacks. Many staff hate the community and living in the area and so it can be a fairly unhappy place to be. If you want a cheap education and do not mind 4 years in a climate that is brutal and the aesthetics of the campus do not bother you and being in a chronically economically depressed area is not a problem for you, than this may be a good place to get a degree. It may be worth going here because it is cheap and you may have fewer loans when you get out. It is just four years and most people can put up with anything for a limited time.