The University of Central Florida (StudentsReview)

How this student rated the school

Educational Quality	F	Faculty Accessibility	D+
Useful Schoolwork	F	Excess Competition	F
Academic Success	F	Creativity/ Innovation	D
Individual Value	F	University Resource Use	B+
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A+	Friendliness	B
Campus Maintenance	A+	Social Life	C-
Surrounding City	B	Extra Curriculars	A+
Safety	A

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Male

Quite Bright

Lowest Rating Educational Quality	F

Highest Rating Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A+

He cares more about Educational Quality than the average student.

Date: Jun 22 2010
Major: School of Information (This Major's Salary over time)
I was in the IST program. I have an AS and an AA from a community college. IBM hired me during my senior year at UCF. During my employment I have found that NONE of my education taken at UCF is even remotely relevent to my job! This is why I dropped out of the school. Everything I use at work I learned at community college. Everything I need to know to move up in the company is not being taught in the curiculum! I was ripped off!

NO Cisco training; no server admin training; no VOIP; the list goes on… I do not see how a graduate could land a job other than help desk or Geek Squad. Sure you learn all the definitions but no practical training at all. In fact I landed my job by complete accident! I was seting up computers for IBM as a contractor and the lead engineer needed to leave the site and thus putting him behind schedule. I took over by following the migration manual the leads had written. Any idiot could have followed a manual. This landed me a Desktop Support position at 12.50 and hour. After 3 years I am up to 15 an hour. So do't expect to come out of UCF making 44K to 60K.

Who makes the curiculum there? I am in the IT field now and know for sure the curiculum is a complete waste. The last class on LAN we were figuring out the failure rate of a token ring network—on paper—a 3 hour problem. Furthermore, we hardly use tokens in networking! Why are they teaching this crap?

Here is what to ask of a Computer Degree…

Can I set up and configure a server—Linux and Windows

Can I add users and set up Group Policies

Can I configure Que based Printers

Can I check my network for bottlenecks

Can I repair the bottlenecks can I ghost image

Can I do Scripting can I write a batch file

Can I troubleshoot hardware and software

Can I make a network cable

Can I draw a network in Visio

Can I put that together with Project Pro

Can I due cost projection of new networks