The Rochester Institute of Technology

This school was absolutely horrible. I transferred in from a liberal arts school as I wanted more practical experience. I was sold on the co-op program and other "merits" of RIT. From day one, I felt as if I had to turn in my personality and individual sense of importance. I was treated as an inmate on work release. The campus, faculty and administration spends an inordinate amount of time ensuring that they are paid every last dollar. I had to negotiate at the student aid office EVERY semester for dollars that I had been promised at the beginning. In addition, the cost of this school is way too high to justify the quality of education, instruction or motivation that I received. (By the way, I am now reasonably successful with a six figure income that RIT had NOTHING to do with). RIT is full of continuing education students each of them from Kodak, Xerox, Bausch and Lomb and the likes. As these students are from corporations giving dollars to RIT, RIT caters its education to these corporations. I received a corporate cookie cutter education geared to helping me rise to the middle of corporations like these. I can't urge people enough to not spend their money at RIT and instead attend a State school and use the money you save to launch a business or attend an excellent graduate school.

4th Year Male -- Class 1997

Collaboration/Competitive: B-, Individual Value: F

If you are a girl and you are reading this...DO NOT GO HERE SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF GUYS! The guys at this school (most at least) are unconcerned with partying, girls, and hygeine. I heard all the negative things about this campus and still decided to go here because I envisioned this sort of party atmosphere. This is definitly not the case. All it did was make me miss my friends at home who are girls. Frankly, the majority of the girls at this school are weird too or deaf. And since there isn't really much to do on campus, I found illegal things to do off campus and eventually had to take a leave of absence for a "drug problem." If your main goal in college is to party and have fun, seriously do not even consider this school. Sure, there is a lot more competition at other schools, but it is definitly worth it.

1st Year Female -- Class 2009

Collaboration/Competitive: B, Education Quality: F