California State University, East Bay — Attraction in Hayward

Lucky I gave the school a star. I want a refund. This is the new high school diploma. I really prefer to call it the Liberal Indoctrination Program. I will trade back my degrees for a full refund, because I can't get my time back.

FYI employers do not check your resumes anymore. I was doing destructive testing at Tesla, and they didn't even know I was a marketing major with degrees in entrepreneurship, tool making, and NC programming. I was using a Sawzall, and rivet gun.

You might as well say you have a doctorate (lie), and save the money going to school. In the real world, it's who is blowing who. Friends, and affirmative action is how you get a good job. Capability has little to do with wage compensation.

Why the indoctrination program? I had an english class where a paper I had written received a grade less than a "c". It was grammatically correct, and I followed the prompts to a tee. The problem was that I referred to the U.S. as a "melting pot", because I think people should assimilate as U.S. citizens. The teacher preferred the term "salad bowl", because everyone is different. I agued my point, because it was correct in MY PAPER in order to prove a point. All to no avail.

To pass the classes, I had to agree. I think I received an "a", or "b".

Also, everything is dumbed down. Almost all tests are multiple choice tests, that are graded on a curve. No mind expanding questions included.

I had a teacher named Robinson that only showed up to half of the classes. She didn't communicate well on top of it. I mean she often gave no response to emails.

There were good teachers. For example, Dr. Steve Ugbah was outstanding, and I had a really good art teacher. That's it!

The administration is the biggest group of overpaid jokes of all time. I will let you find this out yourself. Lol.

BTW, that girl pulling the race card is full of it. The school is primarily minorities, and represents gay people almost to a fault. I thought the school was too politically correct, it felt like you were walking on eggshells constantly. Not a fun...

First off, the location. Its a pretty nice campus, with a pretty nice view of the bay, however its is kind of in the ghetto. So, if this bothers you i would say that you should probably go elsewhere. Its a small-ish school with only around 10,000 people. There also isnt really much to do in hayward. Alot of other schools have campus towns but east bay doesnt really have anything like that. There is a pizza place up the hill called brono billy's which i admit is really good and it's a great place to hang out as there are alot of frats up there during the week.

The dorms are pretty nice. You get alot of the stuff that you get with an apartment like a kitchen, which is cool. The problem is really the administration here. They are pretty damn unreliable sometimes. When something is broken in your dorm, they tell you to go fill out an online request. However, it can take several weeks for anyone to actually respond to your ticket. My friends tried to get his meal plan changed and i think it took like 4 weeks or something. The site tells you that the dorms have hi speed internet but this is only partially true. Its really fast up until 5 or something and then the speed plummets. I had an online class one quarter and the internet was so freaking slow in the evenings that it was hard to even get my hw done.

Campus life is ok. Life during the week is pretty good but this basicaly the only csu without a football team. The campus is pretty dead on the weekends though. Food isnt exactly the best either. There used to be some great food in the union but for whatever reason they decided to replace it with a pizza hut and taco bell.

Overall, not a bad school but i would say that there are better...

This is a great school. I transferred here from community college to major in Construction Management and was one of the few lucky students to start when the program first began. I am happy with the general classes in poli-sciences, accounting, management, physics, construction materials & methods, risk management and building codes, for they provide many of the foundation knowledge in my career. The faculty is willing to work with me as long as they know I am exerting effort to do well in their courses. I tried as best as I could, joined the program's club, participated in extra-curricular activities, went to the ASC competition and worked with the engineering students in various events.

I've been reading reviews and hearing people's complaints about how the student administration staff are not easy to deal with, well my reply to them would be if you are polite and courteous then chances are people will reciprocate. Just don't expect top notch service, if you are not willing to do the leg work to get things done, otherwise complaining won't get you anything except the satisfaction of venting.

Going back to my current enrollment in the program, I have just a little over two months to graduate with a Bachelor of Science. As of to date, I have an internship that I got through a university job advertisement in construction and will strive for a permanent position as soon as I graduate.

All in all, for people who are looking to achieve a degree from an accredited university that is affordable, taught by knowledgeable professors, and is willing to work hard, study and apply what is learned then consider this campus to be an excellent investment for...