The City University of New York Kingsborough Community College

Date: Apr 07 2011
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
I was an on and off student here for a while, because I couldn't decide what I wanted to major in, so I'd take up one major, and switch to something else a few months later. Then I'd take some time off from school, do some work, and then come back again for a different major.

What I've learned from all this is that KCC is not as bad as some people make it out to be. Sure it can be seen as a "13th grade", but by no means is it a waste of time, especially for the little price that they charge in comparison to a four year school.

The school has your typical set of good and bad professors, students and faculty. When I say bad professors, I don't mean that they don't know their stuff. They do, but they just don't have a good and clear way of teaching things, so you might have to change classes and readjust schedules to meet your needs. The students are the regular highschool graduates who are noisy and rowdy, but some do actually come to learn, and get high GPA scores which will help them advance into higher education. The faculty is a hit or miss. They either help you, or they don't. It depends on the person that you're dealing with.

The quality of education here is decent. I've taken some of the top science, math and English classes here, and the stuff that was taught there was very useful for the majors I was in. Again, the issue I've had was that some professors were not good at explaining things, so it would make even the simplest things difficult to understand. There is tutoring available, so that's a plus.

I also made several good friends here, despite majority of the students having the stuck-up MTV teenie-bopper personality. This is to be expected though, because most people don't start to mature until after they've left school.

Overall the school does a good job at preparing those who plan on continuing their education at a four year school and beyond.