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| Major: Economics (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Male | This person cares more about Extra Curriculars than the average student. | Intelligence:
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Useful Schoolwork C- | Describes the student body mostly as:
Friendly, ApproachableDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Helpful | Highest Rating
Individual Value A | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | C | Faculty Accessibility | A- | | Useful Schoolwork | C- | Excess Competition | B+ | | Academic Success | B+ | Creativity/Innovation | A- | | Individual Value | A | University Resource Use | A- | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | A | Friendliness | A | | Campus Maintenance | A | Social Life | B | | Surrounding City | C- | Extra Curriculars | C- | | Safety | B |
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In
general MSU is a good school. I feel confident that
on the whole it's academics are about as good as
any other school. I should clarify that I'm not someone
who's in college for anything other than the academics. If
you're looking for a party school I get the impression
MSU (and the surrounding area) does a lot of partying—but
I don't know for sure. For those who are
mostly interested in a solid education I can tell you
that the best education at MSU is in math, statistics,
engineering, and computer science. If I'm upset or disappointed
by anything its that I pursued a relatively worthless major
in economics. Looking back now that I'm a senior, I
wish that I'd done engineering or computer science. I love
economics, but I'm competing with english majors for jobs! Ugh.
In any case, MSU is a good school, the economics
department faculty are generally good (though their are 2 or
3 out of 12 professors who are of horrible quality—mostly
the newly hired professors), but the actual content of the
economics major is pathetic. The core economics classes are excellent
(101, 102, 201, 301, 302) but the electives are so
lacking in rigor that they should be optimal. Most of
them felt like irritating mountains of busy work. Where the
core classes felt challenging, interesting, structured, and useful . .
. the elective classes lacked structure and were mostly taught
in a “survey of ...“ style. Seeing economic theory applied
to a broad area: like natural resource economics, or public
finance economics. It just seemed that once students deviated from
the core classes the electives weren't worthwhile. I also wish
that when a professor is a new hire that they'd
have the senior professors sit in on their lectures at
least once a week. I believe this would motivate newly
hired professors to care more about teaching, do a better
job, and teach better classes; the new hires would also
probably gain more from the senior professors expertice. Some of
the new economics professors here are atrocious: lazy, boring, unstructured,
frustrating professors who show up every morning to just walk
the students through a powerpoint lecture and then assign homework
that they haven't covered. The last homework assignment I remember
had a 25 point curve! On Homework!!! That's pathetic. If
you (the professor) have to curve homework, you're doing something
wrong.
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