Florida State University

FSU is overall a good school, nice people great town. the only thing that could be complained about is housing. the FSU housing department is terrible. the system does not guarantee housing for freshman and there is a good chance that you will be denied a place to live. in this case, you will be notified at the very end of the summer and will be forced to find an off campus place in 2 weeks or less. if you decide to go to FSU, APPLY FOR HOUSING EARLY!! if you do not you will likely be denied or put into a "temporary" room with 10 other people (often these people do not find rooms and are then locked into a contract and forced to stay with 10 others in a converted lounge for the rest of the year and pay the regular dorm rate!) this one aspect of college life will completely destroy your experience and you will wind up hating FSU and transfer somewhere else or be forced to live in icky last minute off campus housing. seriously, apply for housing early!!!!!!! if you do this then you will likely have a great time at FSU and not have a horrible 1st yr experience

1st Year Female -- Class 2014

Faculty Accessibility: A, Campus Aesthetics: B-

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

I have taken classes at two other Florida universities and I have never experienced nearly as much grade injustice at those institutes as I have experienced here at FSU. The science departments at this university are filled with arrogant, condescending research professors who care more about their own research than their students.

The classes are deemed to be "harder" here. However, the difficulty of a course SHOULD be based on the content of the subject, not based on unfair exams and grading. I was in an upper level chemistry lab and I had the highest grades out of all 3 lab sections, but I did not receive and A because my lab supervising professors told me "Nobody gets an A in this class". The TA's for that lab unfairly took off points for ridiculous errors, and when I asked them about their reasoning for taking off those points they basically scoffed.

I have suffered at least 4 instances where the grading of exams/lab reports/papers has been questionable. Do not come to this school if you actually want to learn. I was an A student before attending this school. I worked hard for my grades, and I still work hard at FSU. But, achieving an A in a science class here is nearly impossible unless the professor curves the whole class several points.AVOID THIS SCHOOL!

3rd Year Male -- Class 2015

University Resource Use/ spending: A+, Faculty Accessibility: F