Cleveland State University

Date: Feb 19 2011
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
I had some good teachers. business teachers were the worst. my psychology teachers were passionate, and very smart! …but overworked. the campus is stratified. you can tell which professions make the most money based on the quality of respective buildings (law is nice, art building is a dungeon). there are a surplus of annoying self absorbed arabic students. the food is overpriced and typically rotton, so going off to a restaurant is usually smarter. the teachers… some dont speak english well. some cant answer your questions, they rely completely on the book. one accounting teacher was quite great, while another ignored the entire class asking him to write problems on the board instead of reading the book to us verbatim leaving us all to fail the class without a curve or another teacher from the accounting dept to help us. tenure is evil. one teacher made a test for the wrong chapters, so we either had to accept our failing scores or study for the 12 chapter test a second time. i personally was screwed out of almost $3000 because my advisor misinformed me about a financial aid situation. the university refused to take responsibility and continued to bill me for THEIR faculties mistake. i am still paying this loan. parking is horrendous. you either pay over $200 a semester for a parking garage that you can never park in, or risk the bums by parking off campus. its beautiful when warm, nice to walk the city, shop the farmers markets, etc… but in the winter its miserable, as is the rest of Cleveland. The University continually ups their tuition, but spends money on menial issues like stupid campus art, misleading advertisements (Engage this you jerks), and petitioning to have the name of the school changed from CSU to The University of Cleveland… really? you are going to spend millions to change the name on your really shitty buildings? how about you FIX THE BUILDINGS. i hated my experience at this school. i abandoned my graduate program there because a degree from CSU does not prepare you for the work force. career services are useless there. the library is poor. teachers, with a few outstanding exceptions, are completely retarded, and the student services employees are only interested in squeezing money out of you. the whole school is set up to trap you there as long as possible. they have even been known to change grad requirements on programs so that their students basically have to start over. if you go there, write down everything every faculty or staff member tells you, date it, get the name of who told it to you, and have them sign it. if you dont, they will treat you like a prisoner if you happen to need help with something. seriously. its that bad.