Marywood University

Date: Nov 30 2011
Major: Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc (This Major's Salary over time)
Marywood University is an absolute joke of a college. I have attended other schools and came into this nightmare world as an adult transfer student. I had the perspective of a mature driven student with a previous degree and experience with two other colleges prior to my enrollment here.

Never have I paid so much for so little. (I have paid more for my education elsewhere, but there it was worthwhile) Marywood is highschool 2.0 at best. I am a very intelligent person, but I expected to be challenged at least a little. I wasn't. The curriculum in every class was nothing short of a parade of meaningless busywork. The stringent attendance policies were made all the more unbearable by the fact that I was never taught any material that I hadn't already gained from reading the textbooks.

As a painter, I was hoping to be given some serious instruction that would push me to be a better artist. What I got were condescending professors who were more interested in pushing their own agendas than helping anyone do anything that laid outside of their very narrow wheelhouses. This place was anathema to genuine creativity, artistic skill, vision, enjoyment, quality… it was a vacuum. I can only thank my lucky stars that I didn't walk away a WORSE artist. That's right, I am lucky to not have been DAMAGED by Marywood.

I graduated with high honors, but only barely. The teachers became aware fairly quickly that I wasn't going to treat them like Gods in the way that their other pupils did. Grades generally reflected only one's ability to stroke their professor's ego and nothing else.

If anyone is considering the BFA program at Marywood University, please, please, please for the love of God, save yourself the agony. You will regret it for the rest of your life…