The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Date: Mar 07 2004
Major: History/Histories (art history/etc.) (This Major's Salary over time)
I woulde advise students to think twice before coming to a large state school. Places like UNC don't exist for the students—they exist for the professors. The faculty are MUCH more concerned with their research—teaching is just a side-job, something they do because they have to, while praying for the day when they'll be relieved of their teaching duties. There are a ton of profs who don't teach at all—they're just there to do research. Meanwhile, undergraduates get screwed over: way too many classes are taught by teaching assistants, some of whom can barely speak English. You may be a junior before you finally take a class taught by a professor. The message that undergraduates get here is that they don't count, thet they're not important, and that the school just needs their tuition money to finance the research professors. UNC would be a great place to get a PhD, but DON'T go here as an undergraduate! Unless you want to be treated like a number for four years, that is. It is criminal how little regard UNC has for its undergraduates—if you want to get an education, don't go to UNC!