(Temple) DO NOT come to Temple for math graduate studies

How this student rated the school

Research Quality	B+	Research Availability	F
Research Funding	B	Graduate Politics	B+
Errand Runners	C	Degree Completion	B
Alternative pay [ta/gsi]	D	Sufficient Pay	A
Competitiveness	C	Education Quality	D
Faculty Accessibility	B	Useful Research	C
Extracurriculars	C	Success-Understanding	D
Surrounding City	A-	Social Life/Environment	A-
"Individual" treatment	B	Friendliness	D
Safety	A-	Campus Beauty	-
Campus Maintenance	B	University Resource/spending	A-

Describes the student body as: Friendly, Approachable Describes the faculty as: Arrogant, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed

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Lowest Rating Research Availability	F

Highest Rating Sufficient Pay	A

He cares more about Research Availability than the average student.

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Math (This Major's Salary over time)
DO NOT come to Temple for math graduate studies if you have somewhere else to go. Years ago I had other choices and now I regret, deeply!

This school is taking advantage of its graduate students, assign you unfair amount of teaching tasks and tutoring hours, exhausting your energy so you have little time focusing on your studies and researches. They are not willing to pay for your extra work but just iterating "this is your duty", "see, we have not used up your 20 hour duty". I know friends from two big universities in this city and they only have 6 to 8 hours work load for a full teaching assistant. Expect to work much more if you come to Temple!

For graduate students it is the researches that matter, but obviously those in charge do not care. This is a vicious circle. The school is not nice to the graduate students, then graduate students would not be nice to the undergrads, and the education quality suffers.

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