(Ohio) Ohio University is a beautiful, historic campus

How this student rated the school

Research Quality	F	Research Availability	D-
Research Funding	C	Graduate Politics	F
Errand Runners	D-	Degree Completion	D
Alternative pay [ta/gsi]	C-	Sufficient Pay	D
Competitiveness	D-	Education Quality	F
Faculty Accessibility	F	Useful Research	F
Extracurriculars	A-	Success-Understanding	B
Surrounding City	B	Social Life/Environment	B+
"Individual" treatment	C	Friendliness	B
Safety	A-	Campus Beauty	A
Campus Maintenance	A	University Resource/spending	B+

Describes the student body as: Friendly, Approachable Describes the faculty as: Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed

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Lowest Rating Research Quality	F

Highest Rating Campus Beauty	A

He cares more about Education Quality than the average student.

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Education (This Major's Salary over time)
Ohio University is a beautiful, historic campus. For the most part, there is a moderately high quality of academics and research here.

However, if you are planning to study Counselor Education, I strongly warn prospective students to avoid Ohio University's program. I spent 4 years in the O.U.'s Counselor Education doctoral program (2004-2008) and found several of the professors to be condescending and difficult behind closed doors, but very nice to you in public.
Also, the faculty has a very poor level of knowledge and skill in regards to the practice of clinical counseling and psychotherapy. In an attempt to conceal their limitations, they will frequently use phases such as: "we are generalists, not specialists". Consequently, you find yourself (in many classes) simply answering socratic questions about irrelevant aspects of the profession they deem important, rather than learning how to become a skilled clinical counselor and counselor educator. If you try to learn important clinical topics on your own, the faculty will often find ways to diminish your interests and discourage you from growing. This behavior frequently left me discouraged and confused about the purpose of education. It seems that they often wanted their students to be "mirrors", reflecting back the professor's own beliefs and values. At the end of the program, I was left feeling cheated and unequipped (even though I carried an A- average).

If you actually enjoy learning and growing, please don't make the same mistake that I made. O.U.'s counselor education program does not invite you to explore your interests and potential. Rather, it imposes a veiled, rigid structure that implies a subtle (but effective) undercurrent about the limits of knowledge, attempting to keep you in the faculty's box.

Ohio University's Counselor Education Program Grade: D-

Responses

I want to apply for this program.could you please elaborate more on the arrogant professors? I heard that they've replaced several faculty since 2008. Could you please check if those professors are still there for me? Thank you.

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They did replace some faculty but I was a doctoral student here too more recently, and the faculty are kind of horrible people. My favorite professor quit his job because he had higher standards, and they started horrible rumors about him and some of my fellow students also expelling them for no reason. Really you need to avoid this place.

I know who you are talking about, I am a student here now and I agree with all of the above. The only good faculty member, who incidentally taught half my classes, left. The rest of them all discriminate in one way or the other and are either unqualified or very angry at the students at all times. I would not recommend and if I could go back in time I would go somewhere else.

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These faculty are so cruel to certain students, do not come here! People are lied to all the time and we have to take way more courses in the end than the catalog says. It’s a rip-off, and nobody cares about you here. It’s just about money- if they won’t get enough money out of us, they cancel the class and make us stay another semester to finish!

This is a nightmare, you should just be able to learn and do your best but everything is politics, like if they think you like a prof’s teaching but the other prof is against that prof, they will get revenge! It’s a soap opera, and the profs come across kinda stupid, even maybe illiterate.

Really bad program, avoid avoid avoid. Professors don't seem to know anything about their subject or the program itself, not even the faculty who runs it! The demeanor of the faculty is highly arrogant as mentioned above. I would drop out but it's a big investment to take a year of courses here so I will just finish.

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