The University of Texas Dallas

Date: Apr 25 2011
Major: Perfomance Arts (This Major's Salary over time)
You are a number, you won't have any friends unless you are in a fraternity or an international student, and unless you are in one of the smaller majors, your professors won't know who you are, because you'll be one of hundreds of students in the one class you'll ever have with them. Unless you're in Arts and Humanities. Then you'll have awesome professors who know who you are because there will be 12 people in your class and you'll have multiple classes with them, but the class won't be worth anything because the department is so underfunded and underdeveloped, and for some reason, deliberately interdisciplinary.

If your major is in the School of Management or the School of Engineering and Computer Science, then you will have brand new, state-of-the art equipment in nicely-furnished classrooms. Otherwise you will get hand-me-down computers and sit in broken chairs bolted to the table (and falling off) in dilapidated buildings from the '70s.

The campus is beautiful… at night. The 1970s brutalist architecture has a reputation for being ugly, and the new campus beautification project looks too fake and over-planned. But at night, when the stark concrete pyramids fade into the background, and the lights shine through the trees, it really is nice to look at.