Arizona State University - Tempe

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Computer Science (This Major's Salary over time)
Every experience I?ve had so far has been negative. Firstly, I have a high GPA, so this isn?t coming from a spiteful place. Here?s some things to consider when applying to the engineering school for a graduate degree:

The advisors are jaded at best, overworked, and don?t care if they?ve wasted your time and money with bad advice. That?s assuming you?re able to get time with any of them. This goes all the way up to the head of the advising department.

Expect ?part-time? enrollment to require a full time investment of time. Any meaningful learning happens outside the classroom because you are rarely tested on lecture material. These programs are not designed for domestic working professionals; they are catered to international students who legally can only work part time - a majority of students are international and they are charged higher tuition. ASU is in the money-making business, not the education business.

ASU is a degree mill. There is no meaningful refund policy - you won?t get your money back AT ALL if you drop after the first week. The testing in EVERY class is designed to produce a certain letter-grade distribution, not actually measure learning. Even the Vice Dean of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering does this with his classes, despite having a professional background in Quality Assurance.

Thesis is a living nightmare. Professors treat you like a lap dog and bear no mind towards the advancement of your ACTUAL thesis work. I spent at least 90% of the time for my thesis developing my professor?s personal project, not working on my thesis.

Tutoring centers either don?t exist or are a waste of time, despite how often they are promoted by the staff. I?ve been to the Math tutoring center dozens of times and never got any useful help. Always have to go to the Professor for meaningful help.

Professors teach as if they don?t actually want to, and only care about research. I?ve heard them refer to students as ?complainers? and ?whiners? on multiple occasions, which illustrates a shocking lack of empathy for an educator. This is especially a problem since the grading practices are so broken.

I?ve heard good things about schools OTHER THAN the engineering school, however there might be similar issues - if less prevalent. The campus is very safe and actually very nice architecturally.