Southern Oregon University

Date: May 31 2012
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
The university is absolutely ridiculous. Despite the 2-3 administrators (Ms. Stone, Ms. Morris, and Ms. Burke), the rest of administration is uncaring about students, and when they graduate. They (especially financial aid) will try and give you as many hoops to jump through as possible. Leading you in circles, over and over again, in order to charge you the most interest and late fees possible. They are increasing tuition, while not increasing the quality of the school, or the classes. Instead of worrying about academics and how poor of a shape they are in (including laying off 20% of teachers!!), they worry about spending $20+ million dollars on improving the sports areas, or even better, the building where the administrators' offices are (no classes in Britt, yet it's going to be the best building on campus). The school provides little education, while most classes are just busy work, or silly assignments that aren't academically motivated. The school talks about being open minded and helpful. But that's only for areas like the queer resource center, and gender neutral bathrooms. Rather than places such as allowing students to conduct their own research, or assisting students with career planning. While I was here, they removed the Career center, the job placement center, and the women's resource center. The school boasts of their small class sizes, yet all classes in the 100s-300s have over 30 students in them. Including how next fall, all the Psychology 201-203 classes will have 100+ students in them. Not at all a great school. Not only do I not recommend this school to people, but I actively advise against going to this school for a quality education where the administration cares more about their purse contents than the students.