I loved my experience here. I’m headed back this spring to start another degree program here.
The school is a complete joke. I've have had maybe 2 good professors, the rest, don't care one bit, The advisors are awful, administration sucks. Parking is horrid. I'm beyond excited to transfer away from here. DO NOT ATTEND ETSU.
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Expensive but impressive
Beautiful landscapes. Art and things around to see this place is amazing Jrotc program, Art and many more.
As a parent you will deal with way to much rhetoric dealing with the financial aid process. You send documents, these loose documents. You give them tax papers one year and the next year that want the exact documents and claim they can't use them again and access them because they are "sensitive". You used them before with all the "sensitive" information. This red tape rhetoric is nothing but a hassle. You talk to one person and get one answer and talk to another and get another answer. We're going to be looking for another school for our daughter.
you get what you work for and be smart do you own planning do not make some councilor pick you classes - you will not be happy with that
If you have another option, take it and run. Everything at this school is a thousand times more complicated than it should be. The administration often seems unorganized and it's a pain to get anything done. I was told by a faculty member that ETSU is first and foremost a business. You may get an education along the way, but their primary concern seems to revolve around money first, and students second. I feel like they bring students in, and right after they cash the check, they bail on them. Revitalizing their failed football program is more important than supporting students academic endeavors. While they work to build a brand new football stadium, some of the academic buildings are in need of serious upgrades.
Simply getting registered for classes is an absolute headache. Financial aid is a mess and often gives conflicting information dependent upon who you speak with. Parking is a nightmare. When you're first accepted here, you're required to pay for and attend a useless orientation session, which is essentially a glorified pep rally.
Several professors (not all) seem as though they don't have the time to be bothered by students. Some are only there so that they can get research funding while treating students like little more than a burden that they are forced to deal with. Online classes cost more for some reason, even though you take those courses from home. Also, notice that only one recent review on here has been replied to - and that was over a year ago. They don't seem to care what anyone thinks.
There are some classes that will automatically fail students for the entire course if they submit late work for any reason at all. There are instructors that will encourage students to drop out. Their graduation rate is less than half, and yet services to support academics are severely underfunded or altogether lacking. Students are nothing more than a number to ETSU.
This review is for ETSU speech and hearing.
I can not in good conscience make a recommendation for ETSU speech and hearing clinic. The Department staff was rude and insensitive to my request for my son to not be observed by students. I made this request clear in the completed packet I filled out and returned to them. Instead of the clinical manager calling me and discussing my concerns or even offering other options. She had the secretary call me and deny services since I did not agree for him to be observed by students and that I must agree to the terms in the packet, since they are a teaching facility. When I called the clinical manager the following day instead of discussing with me my concerns about my son being observed or offering options she quoted the message given by the secretary. Furthermore, she stated since they were a teaching facility they could not honor my request for my son to not be observed by students.When I lodged a complaint, because I was concerned that my patient rights were being violated, I was referred to Legal counsel who asserted that ETSU speech and hearing did not deny services to my son and they were in the legal right not to offer services unless I agreed for my son to be observed by students. I am uncertain as to what their definition is of "denial of services is." I was told blatantly that if I did not agree for my son to be observed by students they would not see him. That sounds like a denial of services to me. In conclusion, I find the staff at ETSU department of speech and hearing to be insensitive to patient needs and lack any ethical center for caring for their potential patients. They care more about the teaching component of their program than patient rights or concerns.
Ever since ETSU started building the new outdoor stadium, which by the way is in the worst location ever, parking has been a total nightmare for those of us who live in the dorms
I graduated from ETSU in December of 2015. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at this school. I can only account for the Computer Science department as that is what my degree is through, but I would advise any one considering a CS degree to seriously consider ETSU. Through my years there were professors that I did not feel went out of their way to help, but that you will find anywhere. The vast majority of the time I had great professors who legitimately cared and would do anything to help, I even had a few that would keep in touch after the semester. My advice is to get through your Gen Ed work. No one enjoys Gen Ed, and find the thing you love to do then stick with it. Once you get into your major all the professors are considerably more helpful. They are where they are for a reason. I know a lot of people who have gone to ETSU for a wide variety of majors, and they have all had they same thoughts. All in all I think ETSU is a great school, and can adequately prepare you to get start your career, whatever that may be.