Florida State University

Date: Aug 21 2008
Major: Mechanical Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
The Engineering school at FSU is shared with FAMU, and it is a bad joke. There are very good professors and classes, but very sorry professors and classes too. I wasted a total of 1yr+ of just BS classes that were good for nothing, and the good ones weren't offered in the semesters that I needed them. Many classmates went through the same situation, and we discussed this regularly.

Expect pure theory and absolutely zero mechanical engineering application. The machine shop is Taboo, and students are not encouraged to use it.

This negative Comment applies to the College of Engineering in general, but the bad experience was with the Mech. engineering department.

After graduating as a mechanical engineering I felt extremely unprepared for any real design jobs, and companies with nice jobs don't even bother to go there to recruit people in the career fairs. Only the companies with sucky jobs, and horrible retention are the ones that recruit there.

My next chance comes when I go to grad school.

Please learn from other's mistakes:

RULE OF THUMB: GO TO A GOOD SCHOOL!

Good side of the story: FSU is very good for things other than engineering. Girls are beautiful, and party is HARDCORE 24/7

Your choice.