The University of Florida

Don't let the new "pre-eminent" status & rabid intenal marketing campaigns fool you, this school should be a private corporation. It is shocking to me when I see & hear repeatedly how much disdain administrators across the board, in every dept have for students. These people truly hate your kids. Students generate revenue, a necessary evil, to keep funds rolling in for other investments like all the private, for profit medical facilities. This are not teaching hospitals. The research labs are not for teaching either - they are marketed to and leased out for profit to private companies. This school uses student tuition profits & government money to build all tgese for profit revenue streams. The campus? It is falling apart.

I made a horrible, horrible mistake in choosing to invest my time & money at this school. USF is run like a private equity company intersted in highest profit, lowest cost. It isn't about "education" at all. Keeping snot nosed, "untrustworthy, brats" running around keeps the "State University" status and grants flowing in. Students are dead last in priority. Where do the profits go?

My guess is that when it makes sense financially, USF will cut the undergrad school portion out, go private & be a wholly for profit institution - built in the backs of students and taxpayer dollars.In the meantime, good luck finding a parking slot in one of the cracks and sluvers reserved for students, don't pay attention to the bags in the classrooms collecting rainwater on the ceilings, keep walking around, you will eventually find a working toilet or sink, oh... and be sure to use pen.