Morgan State University

Date: Jun 08 2010
Major: Social Work (This Major's Salary over time)
This school leaves a lot to be desired. Students are unapproachable and most were just downright mean and rude. The teachers were great, but the administration - all of them - need to be fired and replaced with people who can actually run a school the way it needs to be run. The current administration is incapable of running the school anywhere except into the ground.

The campus looks ugly; they took the fraternity and sorority benches from the quad a few years ago and they still haven't replaced them. The grass on the quad is brown and there are so many bare patches of grass, it just looks so unattractive. The only saving graces are the new student center and the new library.

Security is a major problem on campus. NEVER walk by yourself at night on Morgan's campus, especially if you're a girl. Morgan has an open campus so any thug or crackhead can walk in off the street and go into any of the academic buildings. Morgan seems to be proud of this fact, seeing as they proclaim in their recruitment literature that they're an urban university and having an open campus allows the city of Baltimore to blend with the campus community.

Baltimore, in case you don't know, is one of the nation's most violent cities. It is not uncommon to hear police sirens and to see police helicopters flying around at night with their searchlights blazing.

Most students here don't care about education. They only care about looking good, and going to the club. Sometimes it felt like a glorified high school. People in class would sit in the back and snicker about the students who weren't wearing the latest fashions or shoes. Or they'd laugh if you attempted to engage in any type of intelligent discussion with the professor. I was often told that I 'act white' because I don't fit the stereotype of what black people should dress or talk. Or maybe it was because I actually studied and read. One would think that students at an HBCU would be doing their best to dispel these sad stereotypes, instead they merely propagated them. I made some friends and had some good times, but still I think I would've had a better experience at a non-HBCU college.