Ohio State University

Date: May 13 2009
Major: Natural Resources (This Major's Salary over time)
If you're considering going to Ohio State, you've probably already heard it all, so I won't repeat it. For the most part, this University is a hit-or-miss enterprise. Depending on which subject you decide to study, you may get to study and learn under brilliant faculty and be assisted in your learning process by administration that remembers that you, the student, are paying their salaries and hence are actually helpful.

Or you may choose a major where the faculty are indifferent to your intellectual advancement or are too wrapped up in their own research to care about mere undergrads and where the administration are overwhelmed by the number of students to provide any meaningful guidance or are bitter for some reason and are not helpful at all to students.

I know one of the popular defenses for large universities is that because they are so large and anonymous (believe what you hear - you ARE just a number here), you, the student, are forced to distinguish yourself from the rest of the pack. While I agree that applying yourself and manufacturing your own success are critical skills to learn for the rest of your life; often, you will succeed in spite of this University.