The University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Date: Aug 22 2005
Major: Communications (This Major's Salary over time)
If you want to major in Communications, DON"T COME HERE! There Communications major is a joke! It teaches you more about human communication and theories and methods instead of mass media. The only programs worthwhile here are the School of Business, Engineering, Psychology and even the English dept. The liberal arts and fine arts majors all seem to get cut by the state.

As far as the students, they're all very cliquish and can be unfriendly. Living in the dorms are more like high school rather than college, except for Orchard Hill. Most of the students are all slackers and so many of them were on academic probation. Many students usually drop out or transfer. You have to find your niche crowd. Some can be really snobby towards students who come from working class backgrounds.

I'm not even going there with the food, it's nasty.

It is a fun school, epscially with Northampton and Amherst closeby and the Berskhires and Vermont not far either. However, everybody agrees that it gets old.

I stayed for a year and transfered. If you're looking for a good communications program for a state school in Mass, consider Salem State, Bridgewater State, or U Mass-Dartmouth.