Clarkson University

Date: Apr 11 2011
Major: Math (This Major's Salary over time)
What is good? A lot of the teachers are very intelligent and helpful. They're in they're office when they say they'll be (usually) and get back to you via email.

That said, the Computer Science department is horrible (I also have experience there), and regardless of your major department, you're going to find teachers that being engineering/math/comp sci teachers just can't communicate.

The main problem is the students. Clarkson's student body is white-bred, upper middle class, middle to down state New Yorkers. They don't really have much life experience and thus EVERY GRADE PHASES THEM. Expect to run into many engineers hyperventilating over MATLAB projects and jeopardizing their future cardiac health.

The administration recognizes the homogeneity of the student population and as such, treats them like children. If you get in trouble, academic or disciplinary, you will be scolded. Like a child. Your teachers will, despite their inherent intelligence, cater to the crowds, and not let much creativity enter your coursework.

Things fall apart, the computers don't work, and right around January, when the temperature is hovering around -8 Farenheit, everybody looks a little depressed, to say the least. Two oft-quoted items that we regularly make the Princeton Review for are the worst library (it is) and the largest percentage of dissatisfied students (the Counseling Center is not proud).

Advice. Of the general white, mashed potato, money laden mass that is the Clarkson student body, there is not much in the way of shared interests. The only shared interest is a high per capita consumption of Natty Light. This is directly correlated with the high amount of dissatisfaction with Clarkson schoolwork and the complete and utter despair at being a primarily engineering school and thus all students condemned to highly techincal, socially isolating jobs.

Oh yeah. It's >$45,000 a year to attend and that price is steadily increasing.

Final Advice. Do what you want. They're making a new website. It'll probably be really alluring and you'll forget what I said anyways.