The Illinois Institute of Technology

Date: Jan 13 2012
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
iTech is a "speciality" technical school that is purely technically career oriented school; problem, in the "legitimate" majors your professors owned the corner office in your field, and are setting you up to work in a cubical. By "legitimate" majors I mean architecture, engineering, math and science fields - for everything else, the program is designed for engineers who fell out with numbers their 3rd year and can't tranfer schools.

They are a school based on name recognition alone - the outside world assumes with such a hefty price-tag and dismal social conditions you HAVE to be focusing on academics and professionalism; this simply isn't the case.

The administrators at iTech have clearly forgotten who they are really servicing - yes, I met your admissions standards and you set the graduation requirements but after all the buzz words; "research based approach" and "progessive, innovative learning approach" you find you're going to be some bigger fish's lab rat (if that) and the environment is more focused on the ridiculous do-dads made by the companies who hire alums than the actual quality of information and relevance to becoming an independent figure in your field, not working a 9-5 to in a cubical, or worse, sipping coco in a comfy office.

Student life is "diverse" - I work in the admissions office as a federal work study student, and I tout the stats with a grain of salt - 40% international students. Yes, you will find "your people" (ethnically) but odds are you won't leave that circle as it is hardly a melting pot as Aunt Edna's lime jello with various canned fruit-substances thrown in, which leads to the bigger problem…

The school is as dismal as it is BECAUSE the people who run it knew the starting of these realitively new studies, and it is extraordinarily hard for there to be new imput from students, as a whole or individually, as there is no coordination or free access to information from other memebers of your community. The head admistrators do A LOT of PR to students, but it is more political, primary, campaign glad-handing than actually addressing any issues relevant to the institution - so yes, you have seen the president, he may even know your name, but will anything REAL have happened within the next semester, the next year, the next graduating class, by the time you get your masters? No.