The University of Utah — Attraction in Salt Lake City

Honestly, out of 4 universities I have been to, this was the worst experience by far!! A lot of the teachers you can tell were just there for the check and didn't care for their students. I had a teacher tell us some information about the subject first day of class followed by "If you don't know this just leave and drop out of the class" This was the beginning course for that subject, not the advanced class or anything. At first, I thought maybe it was something I just didn't know that was common knowledge but after talking to several colleagues I found out that none of us had ever heard of what he said before. Had another professor who had no clue about the subject, and was just reading the PowerPoint. This became very obvious when he didn't know any of the blanks in his PowerPoint, a lot of the time we spent time trying to figure out the answer unless a TA knew the answer from the previous class. This was specifically frustrating because we would fall behind on schedule, and just like his PowerPoint, he was using someone else's exams so our exams were 4+ chapters ahead, when we commented that we never learned those chapters all we got was to try our best. But still counted towards our grade and didn't get to redo those chapters on the next exam. During the lab, we were not taught anything and were just given the answers to turn in for credit. Then it came to homework that semester they were trying a new program that if you didn't enter the answer a certain way it would mark it wrong and you only got 2 tries. So we got into groups to figure it out. Which worked a little better until we all entered it the same way and somehow were still marked wrong, again when we told the professor and showed pics and video proof nothing happened. Thanks to this a lot of people failed, the professor was fired the next semester but in the meantime, we wasted a semester and we never got a refund or anything. Also had a photography teacher who just spent most of the class gloating about his work and showing us his website. And if we ever didn't see it the way he did we were wrong, for example, we had a big assignment where he had us take pictures and photoshop them, then in front of the class explain what story WE were trying to tell by creating OUR photo. Well, if you didn't say what he thought your story was when he saw your picture you would get a bad grade... It was very frustrating... because the docked points weren't on a bad photo, or bad editing skills but because he disnt hear what he...

Another update: This institute is absolute garbage. So against all of my objections, my wife went back again. She went into the GIS program to get a degree in that. The first couple of weeks, the professor kept joking about how worthless the degree is and it impacted her. She looked for jobs in the GIS field but couldn't see any for beginner candidates. And most required a higher degree than what she was going to get. She decided to drop out of the course after her third week. Her financial aid office advisor had told her quite a few times that they would bill us a small amount of the tuition owed, and then put the rest on the student loan she had from previously going there.

We ended up paying about $3500 for 3 weeks. Not a small chunk of change by any means. Now they want an additional $1400 right now to pay off the rest. They are telling her that they never told her that they could put it on the student loan. If you decide to go to this university, first off you are crazy. Second, record your conversations. The advisors lie like crazy there. It's really not worth wasting 7 years of your life to end up owing a lot of money and ending up with a worthless degree. Go to Westminster instead. Yeah it costs more, but at least you get a degree you can use and you won't be lied to on a constant basis. Or just don't come to Utah for an education.

Original: Wife went there and got a Bachelor's that is really quite worthless. She was told that it would be an Environmental Science degree by academic advisors at SLCC and at the U but both were wrong. Now we have quite a bit of debt, payments starting soon on the student loans and she's working as a baker making half as much as I am. I only have a HS diploma and 3 certificates. She never got any scholarships either even though she was pulling straight A's. Never got the guidance after asking for help trying to find scholarships and apply for them. She would have been much better off going to USU or some other university out of state. Education in Utah isn't setup for students to succeed. It seems like the U is more interested in making money off their athletics than much else. I wouldn't and have not recommended the University of Utah to anyone that has asked me if they should go...

Over all i give the university a 3. I'll be honest, i enrolled expecting to expand my knowledge in drawing and painting. Before the year started the Art department came up with the "foundations" classes because professors felt students were not coming in prepared enough for the material they were going to learn so the department came up with beginner level classes. At first, no big deal, my counsellor said you are only required to take 4 out of the 10 foundations classes. Great so i chose drawing, painting, ceramics, and digital media. Well then me and my other art major friends find out you have to take all 10, so visual art language, art history, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and abstract film. I had to find this out from my friend,not the Art department! So i say ok whatever maybe some of these classes will be fun. No, most of the teachers are disorganized or trying to shove too much material into a quarter class. The drawing and art language professors were always grouchy. Painting was the only class i thoroughly enjoyed, the professor was kind and funny. All of the other foundation classes couldn't hold my interest, and I'd get up and leave class if i felt i wasn't learning anything. Only 3 of 10 class did i actually enjoy and learn from. I felt it was a waste of money, thousands in student debt for classes i disliked and didn't learn from. The administration's office won't tell you or inform you on anything you need to complete or get done UNLESS YOU ASK AND ASK. This has been the most annoying thing. I was told i wouldn't be billed until 6 months after graduation for my student debt, and a month ago i got a letter saying i needed to start paying soon so i called my loan provider and they said you have to get a deferment of enrollment request and have a counsellor fill it out and send it to us. I had to jump through so many hoops to finally get someone to sign it. Also, with all the money the university has and all the construction they do youd think they'd tear down and build a new art building, it's a dark cement dungeon. I feel i flushed $3000 down the toilet and was made to dislike art. I won't be going for another year again. Pretty...