The Illinois Institute of Technology
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Research Quality | F | Research Availability | F |
Research Funding | F | Graduate Politics | F |
Errand Runners | F | Degree Completion | F |
Alternative pay [ta/gsi] | F | Sufficient Pay | F |
Competitiveness | F | Education Quality | F |
Faculty Accessibility | F | Useful Research | F |
Extracurriculars | F | Success-Understanding | F |
Surrounding City | F | Social Life/Environment | F |
"Individual" treatment | F | Friendliness | F |
Safety | F | Campus Beauty | F |
Campus Maintenance | F | University Resource/spending | F |
Describes the student body as: ApproachableDescribes the faculty as: Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed |
Lowest Rating Research Quality | F |
Highest Rating Research Quality | F |
Major: Physics (This Major's Salary over time)
I do not recommend this U., and I have spoken with others who are similarly unimpressed, and heard rumblings by even more as I sat on the computer.1) It is written that international students can waive the expensive iit health care plan if they have other coverage. Not true. I had to badger the Dean's office repeatedly for weeks after I arrived to get the charges removed from my account. When I was finally successful, I was told that if I told anyone else and they wanted to opt out too, I'd be forced to pay! (I guess they didn't want to lose an easy money source.)2) I was placed in a ph.d. course during the first month of my masters and told it was a master's course. When I wanted out and this conflicted with my visa the advisor who had placed me there wrote a nasty comment on the bottom of the sheet (whose box stated that I was reqesting a lower course minimum for my visa because of improper placement) which said that it was an appropriate course, it was just me who believed otherwise, for my own reasons. 3) Expensive, no available TA/RAship for me. No lab/thesis for me.After meeting with the chair and announcing intentions of leaving I was told the chair would try and get me some lab work in the summer. (No details provided.)4) Badly run. No pre-planning more than a month in advance for courses, books, teachers. The core masters courses are all in semester one, so a student has to be there over the two years to cover all of them.Poor course instruction. A mumbling old prof. ran through his equations, making mistakes and erasing over the 3 boards thereafter. The homework had numerous corrections which were made by the prof. the week-end before hand-in on Monday. Nice. And the integral which I had asked him about (unable to find in the tables) 1 week earlier which he said to do was later emailed as unsolvable by hand calculation. 5) The book store! I was sold a course book with missing pages for which the campus book store refused to provide an undamaged copy without surrendering my old one with all my scribble notes for the first 3 chapters. I had to call the distributor and then the out-of-state Barnes and Noble parent store before I could solve the problem myself.6) You'll pay $92 for a bus pass that you don't want or need.7) The Dean is a smooth-talker who'll turn your complaints around and psychoanalyse you uncomplimentarily and to his advantage.8) Their professional guest speakers are all inhouse or locals and whose expertise quotes things such as "that is what I was told in high school"! I couldn't make this up. It's too sad.