The University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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.