The Illinois Institute of Technology

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
Summary: If you want to just bag an additional degree to your name, you can chose IIT but if you really want to find jobs and advance your career, do not go for this school.

Pros:

Faculty are amazing especially with respect to Biological and chemical science department. They are always friendly and approachable.

Cons:

As an international student, I came here to grow my career. First, No opportunity to join research work under faculties, there is absolutely no funding and I had to look for external opportunities to do my thesis work.

Second, TA/GAs are absolutely non-existent. None of my classmates received any form of tuition/research assistance that I know of.

Third, IIT career service is completely hopeless. They have no idea about any biotech company. Probably, if you are joining Information Technology/ Computer science, you may be better off. Unfortunately, I have never seen a single biology based company in any of the career fairs in my two years at IIT. Career advisers are friendly but they do not care about your career at all. Once they edit your resume, they do not help you with actually finding a job after graduation. I had to hunt for a job opportunity all by myself and it was a pretty difficult path. I completely regret for thinking I will find good contacts and will find opportunities to enhance my career at IIT. Career Management Center at IIT is a complete waste of time, all they do is sign some paper works. They should stop calling themselves career service.

Fourth, this school is highly expensive for what it offers. They have additional cost for every single thing. God knows why. They make all payments mandatory even if you are not using them. This is one of the very greedy school I have come across.

I request the management to read the horrible reviews they have been getting and take some measures to improve their standard.