The University of Massachusetts - Lowell

Date: Nov 12 2012
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
Its an ok school with ok faculty and sort of ok professors. Typical ok state run public school. This is more of a commuter school than anything else so don't expect to find parking after 12pm or a big frat party style college since everyone tends to leave after 3pm.

The students are all over the place from extremely smart over achievers to those just trying to get by with D's. Overall the students I've meet were nice and approachable no one is overly nasty. It really depends on the department the easy low-tier programs and filled with bad-ok students. The students of engineering, computer science/IT or really any difficult majors have a certain sense of camaraderie because they are so difficult. The only problem is when you might be pared up with one of the under achieving student on a project which is extremely annoying and aggravating.

As far as professors are concerned there are a lot of foreign teachers with tough accents and depending on the department or class you are in you will either be taught by a professor or be completely on your own. Some of the professors especially in the engineering and computer science departments should be downright fired for incompetence, arrogance and inability to actually speak English. Its frustrating because you are paying serious amounts of cash to be taught by teachers not researchers or professors with a superiority complex. Sometimes you will be on your own and will have to teach yourself the course. I remember having to go on you tube to learn macroeconomics. If I wanted to be a self taught IT student I wouldn't be in college in the first place.

Some professors seriously do need to calm down on the overly heavy workload on prerequisite classes that all students have to take. By the time I was done with my prerequisite and required accounting classes I was a far more knowledgeable at accounting than IT which should not be the case.
The UML campus is extremely spread out, not very practical and not very attractive. It's not as bad as some the UMA random block-o-concrete buildings placed at random, but still not attractive. The faculty rates is usually ok. I highly dislike the fact that students are placed in some of the most useless positions. I once met a student secretary who was nothing more than a doorbell. Honestly all they did was see if someone was there or not. They could not set up appointments they could not tell you the scheduled of anyone or even tell you when you can expect that person to be back.
Overall its a low-tier school for students on a serious budget if you can afford to go to a better school please do so.