The University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Date: Dec 03 2011
Major: Education (This Major's Salary over time)
UW-Whitewater is a decent school, especially for the in-state price. There are a lot of self absorbed partiers, but by junior year, most students have become more intellectual and care more about school and their future. I'm an elementary education major with a psychology minor. I've found all of my psych professors to be good or great, but unfortunately about half of my elementary education professors should not be teaching there. You know there's a problem when a professor says to the class

Your grade goes down when my frustration level goes up.

I found my education classes to not be very applicable to the real world either. It's in a small town, but the school does a good job of providing activities to do, such as movies on the weekends for only $1 and comedians. A lot of people in the dorms go home every weekend. Most of the apartments close to campus are really crappy (almost black water comes out of the faucet, mold in the bathroom, etc).

Advice: Join a learning community freshman year if you want to make some close friends right away (you live in the same dorm and take a lot of classes together). Also check professorperformance.com and ratemyprofessors.com before enrolling in classes to see what other students thought about the professors.

Bottom line: Depending on the program, some of the academics are subpar and consist mainly of busy work. The lack of good apartments is also annoying. These are my 2 biggest problems with the school/town, but otherwise it's a good school to go to!