The University of Texas at Austin — Attraction in Austin

More than a few years back I attended the advertising graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin. It was an absolutely horrifying experience in which I witnessed rampant low morale, hypocrisy, and egregiously incompetent customer service. I've never seen so many backwater, prejudiced, unethical, and disgruntled office clerks, instructors, professors, and administrators in my life. They really seemed to hate their jobs and to hate their lives. Dr. Michael Mackert is one of the most pathetic professors I've ever had to deal with in my life.

There was disconcerting talk amongst the students that professors retaliate if anyone files complaints about incompetence or verbally expresses concerns. Furthermore, there is a snitch culture that is encouraged by sanctimonious administrators. There are creepy rumors of gang stalking, a school to prison pipeline, and that the university systematically spies on its students. The Dean of Students Office and professors are eager to abuse their power in the most sadistic and discriminatory ways.

The learning experience in the classroom was consistently abysmal and ostentatious. There were so many draining and wasteful class discussions and group projects that I felt that I wasn't learning anything relevant. The professors allow the most narcissistic attention seeking students to control the narratives in all class discussions and team projects perpetuating groupthink. I wasn't impressed by the pedantic textbooks, readings, or homework projects that were assigned. The instruction was routinely awful, irrelevant, repetitive, and abrasive. I felt scammed the entire time considering that most employers don't require applicants to obtain degrees in the advertising industry instead they prefer portfolios. Portfolios can be created independently without wasting money at The University of Texas at Austin. Furthermore, I believe a degree in advertising is worthless because many employers will offshore the work projects to other countries.

Networking with fellow students and colleagues is futile. There wasn't camaraderie or team spirit amongst classmates. Rarely does anyone make eye contact. I felt harassed, ostracized, discriminated against, and provoked by disgruntled and perhaps personality disordered classmates and sometimes by belligerent professors and administrators. There seemed to be a lot of mentally unstable attention seeking psychopaths, narcissists, and paranoid schizophrenics on campus too.

The Dean of Students Office was horribly unhelpful, sanctimonious, and very unprofessional as well. The counseling center was creepy and equally as unhelpful. The campus is too huge for comfort, many of the hideous old buildings are falling apart, and there usually wasn't any interesting activities going on. The student organizations are lousy front groups with ostentatious virtue signaling hidden agendas. There wasn't an abundance of job opportunities. Even worse I witnessed the most incompetent unqualified people get jobs at UT Austin. The traffic around the campus is chaotic and dangerous. The campus population consists mostly of deceptively well-dressed country bumpkin boorish southern trash and anti-social immigrants who can't speak coherent English.

Aside from encountering a lot of questionable Asian immigrants and belligerent virtue signaling feminists I didn't really observe any genuine liberalism. I felt that my intelligence was routinely insulted. On campus I felt bullied on a regular basis by disgruntled psychos. I'm shocked that this university has so many positive reviews because when I attended most of the students seemed depressed, disgruntled, and paranoid. Furthermore, I felt that my money, time, and energy was totally wasted at The University of Texas at Austin.

Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education and Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education by Charles Sykes are very revealing exposé based books that everybody should read before attending...

The institution's arrogance, sense of entitlement, and self importance make it an unfriendly, intimidating place for both students and members of the community. The university has yet to reflect the diversity of the state with African American students making up less than 5% of the student body for the past 30 years.

While the graduate programs and faculty research efforts are well ranked generally, UT-Austin is not yet on par with top level public research universities such as UC Berkeley, Michigan, MIT, and UCLA and thus is considered a second tier academic institution outside of Texas. Undergraduate teaching and learning are not a serious priority for the administration and most tenured faculty. Student needs consistently take a back seat to faculty needs, internal power struggles, and alumni interests.

The campus is architecturally dense, crowded, and visually uncohesive. It lacks the vitality and energy of a truly urban campus and the well-planed, pastoral feel of most land-grant institutions. The university is generally resistant to meaningful community partnerships related to mass transit (light rail), urban planning, and sharing its physical and intellectual resources in an accessible manner. It prefers to exist for itself rather than the betterment of its students, the community, or Texas. The tower which dominates the UT Austin campus is truly...

UT Austin isn’t just a top-tier school — it’s a machine. World-class academics, booming innovation, top-ranked programs across engineering, business, and liberal arts, and all located in one of the most vibrant, opportunity-rich cities in the country. You come here to build empires, not just take notes.

Compare that to UC Davis — the UC system’s most overhyped compost pile.

At UT, you’re encouraged to think boldly, speak freely, and lead. At Davis, you better memorize the groupthink script or risk being socially exiled by people who confuse activism with intellectual depth. Independent thought? Questioning norms? At Davis, that’s how you get flagged as “problematic” by students who can’t handle a basic debate without clutching their pearls.

Let’s talk numbers: UT Austin grads are walking into six-figure careers, startups, and grad schools that matter. UC Davis grads? ~$54K median income 10 years after enrolling. That’s not success — that’s a participation trophy with a student loan attached.

UT Austin builds leaders. UC Davis builds compliant mid-level staffers with LinkedIn bios full of buzzwords and zero real impact.

So yeah — Hook ’em. We’re...