Florida Gulf Coast University

Date: Jul 16 2012
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
This is hands down the worst college experience I've ever had. I have attended two other universities, a community college for two years, and University of Florida for correspondence courses. As a psychology major, only about 30% of the elective courses listed are actually offered, and good luck getting into any of the classes you need! The classes only accept 24-40 students at a time, even the online courses max out at 30-35 students, and they fill up within hours of registration opening. How many people are in the program??? So you end up having to wait ENTIRE SEMESTERS to take certain classes you need because you can't get into them. They offer many of the classes at the same exact time on the same days, so you can only register for one class, and not take any other classes you need. Didn't have this problem with the other two schools I attended. Which reminds me, I wouldn't have to take correspondence courses with ANOTHER UNIVERSITY if my own offered them and I could get in. It is such a pain in the a** having to transfer credits and enroll at another school just because my "home" school failed to give me what I am paying for. Hey FGCU, if you are going to hike your tuition rates by 14%, maybe you should actually provide the classes students need to get their degrees! I really wish I had never chosen this school. Parking is a nightmare. The campus is out in the open so when it rains, which is pretty frequently during Florida summers, you get soaked. It's in a small town, pretty much in the woods (complete with alligators walking around on the sidewalks with you!) so there is no nightlife. There's no football team. No fraternity or sorority houses. What exactly does FGCU offer that other universities do not? The nursing program almost lost accreditation because none of the graduates could pass the boards, so they built a new health sciences building to try and draw in more nursing students with something shiny and new since their program sucks so bad. If I knew this was going to be my "college experience" with FGCU, I would never have applied. Do yourself a favor and go to a real university, that can offer academics as well as the fun things, like a football team, a fun city to explore, that prospective employers will also be able to recognize when looking at your resume (most have never heard of FGCU).