The University of Colorado - Denver

Date: May 11 2011
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
Good luck finding a job after receiving absolutely 0 practical skills to use in the workplace, no job fairs, and no athletics. I went to CU Denver to be able to apply to med school. Instead I ended up getting shuffled around departments, had 5 different advisors, and the pre-med advisor spent 3 minutes with me on my first visit and threw me out of his office with a packet on how to get into med school instead of for what I'd come into his office. I ended up with a degree in biology and 0 career prospects upon graduation despite several courses in business and working as a TA. If you want to go to college, great, but don't waste your money here where there are few real amenities, no support, and mostly fairly poor instruction except from a few select teachers. On and no career fairs, but the lesser expensive schools next door seem to promote sports and actually finding a job. If you're in CO, do yourself a favor, go to Mines, CU Boulder, or CSU and make sure that there are favorable job opportunities in your field before you sign up for classes. Engineering or computer science, anything that you HAVE to have a degree to do ie BSN, pre-med (here's my take… don't focus on a degree… only work on your med school requites, you'll know pretty quickly if you'll be competitive to get in and be able to change into a better field if you can't). If you want to be an artist, actor, or anything that doesn't explicitly REQUIRE a degree, save your money and knock on as many doors as you have to. If you want to use the university's cool equipment because you're into the sciences, great! (But don't go to UCD, they don't have any). If so, make friends with your prof and (s)he might bring you on as a TA. Real work experience trumps anything at a university… get a job in the field that you want to be in and go from there.