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“FSU has been a fairly decent experience forBrightBusiness - Management and Administration
FSU has been a fairly decent experience for me so far. I'm currently a dual Business/English major, and I feel like both of those departments at this school have been competent at what they do and are easy to approach and work with. The quality of education is definitely what you put into it; especially the initial courses, where you could be one student in a lecture hall of about 300. The professor to TA ratio is also a bit lower than one might like, but both the TAs and the professors have always been easy to reach and I have always found them to be extremely helpful if I needed it. Classes also seem to become much smaller and more personal as one gets past the initial core requirements.

Campus life/night life is good. I'm from a rural area, so Tallahassee seems decent sized to me, but those who come from an area such as Miami will find it to be small. There is always something to do, however.As a side note, be a little wary of the financial aid office. I had my Stafford loans cut in half about a month before I started here with no warning. It may be a rare occurrence, but I do know others who have had issues with that office at one time or another.

1st Year Male -- Class 2011
Faculty Accessibility: A+, Individual Value: C+
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“Nothing to do aroundAverageCivil Engineering
Nothing to do around the school, i wish i got into ucf so i could go there instead. life is very boring. academics nothing special and engineering programs SUCKS ruined by famu
1st Year Female -- Class 2012
Faculty Accessibility: C, Education Quality: F
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“The Engineering school at FSU is shared withMechanical Engineering
The Engineering school at FSU is shared with FAMU, and it is a bad joke. There are very good professors and classes, but very sorry professors and classes too. I wasted a total of 1yr+ of just BS classes that were good for nothing, and the good ones weren't offered in the semesters that I needed them. Many classmates went through the same situation, and we discussed this regularly.

Expect pure theory and absolutely zero mechanical engineering application. The machine shop is Taboo, and students are not encouraged to use it.

This negative Comment applies to the College of Engineering in general, but the bad experience was with the Mech. engineering department.

After graduating as a mechanical engineering I felt extremely unprepared for any real design jobs, and companies with nice jobs don't even bother to go there to recruit people in the career fairs. Only the companies with sucky jobs, and horrible retention are the ones that recruit there.

My next chance comes when I go to grad school.
Please learn from other's mistakes:
RULE OF THUMB: GO TO A GOOD SCHOOL!
Good side of the story: FSU is very good for things other than engineering. Girls are beautiful, and party is HARDCORE 24/7

Your choice.

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000
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